> Didn’t work out quite so well for Russia the last time. <
True enough, on the other hand, Finland was lucky Stalin left them alone as WW II drew to a close. The Red Army in 1945 was not the Red Army of 1939. Zhukov and the boys would have crushed Finland in a week or two.
As it was, Stalin was satisfied with some territorial concessions.
“True enough, on the other hand, Finland was lucky Stalin left them alone as WW II drew to a close. The Red Army in 1945 was not the Red Army of 1939. Zhukov and the boys would have crushed Finland in a week or two.”
Finland was already out of the war by late 1944 and I believe Stalin himself said that Berlin was the goal and not Helsinki. There was also the fact that Finland was the only member of the Axis that the US was neutral with during the entirety of the war and there was notable sentimental support for Finland amongst the US population.