Yes. If they had any sense, they would have given in on the front end rather than fight a loosing war and having the same result as the Reds originally sought.
>> rather than fight a loosing war <<
Uh, sorry pal, but you need to brush up on your history. The Finns didn’t lose the Winter War. They inflicted huge losses on the Russkis and basically achieved a stalemate.
The result was that Finland thwarted the Soviet plan to take over their entire country. I’d say that was quite an admirable accomplishment for a country of about 4 million, going up against the USSR’s 100+ million.
Par, seriously..
Do you believe that if the Finns had not brought the voracious russians to the point of defeat that Stalin would have been satisfied with just Karelia?????
They had no idea when russia attacked them that Germany would soon make russia run away from its ambitions against its former territory.
The Finns under the Great Mannerheim were and remain a lesson in courage against evil at impossible odds.