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To: SolidWood
I believe that Hungary and Romania were allies of Germany and did persecute the Jews, Finland was a co-belligerent and did not
30 posted on 05/20/2009 2:14:21 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Finland wasn't a "co-belligerant", the Russians had attempted to take over Finland. The war was more or less a stalemate, but the Russian army was definitely defeated. To stop the war the Fins gave up much of Eastern Finland. As part of the deal the Finns were then required to kick the Germans out of the country ~ something like 250,000 troops.

They did that smartly.

The rest of WWII continued on for 5 years or thereabouts.

The lesson for everyone ~ the Finland had an army that could beat both the Russians and the Germans. The rest of the world took 5 more years just to beat the Germans.

Irrespect of how folks want to make the war between Russia and Finland look, they must also consider the war between Germany and Finland.

Finland was no one's co-belligerant. On the other hand, in the German war against Poland and the Russian war against Poland, Germany and Russia were co-belligerants.

78 posted on 05/20/2009 3:12:15 PM PDT by muawiyah
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