The Red Army will be enjoying a white Christmas in Finland. Excursion scheduled to begin at the end of November. They may be having a white Valentine's day, also. The survivors's, anyway.
i guess the US looked the other way, hoping to keep stalin on board?
I'm not sure we considered Stalin to be on board at this point.
just read some finland history. hadnt realized that they were actually part of russia until the 1918 revolution, then fought a civil war internally between the rightists and the reds, executed a bunch of “reds” so there was a lot of bad blood and history there.
at the end of ww2, they had to cede a 10% of their country to the reds, they got a small part back in the 50’s, but to this day the russians have a chunk, particularly the all weather port.
but as a country, finalnd is a 20th century appearance. most of its histpory it was part of sweden or russia.
who knew?