Professor
Interesting. Thanks for sharing it.
Re the Finns, most Americans seem to believe, with McConnell, that they defeated the Soviets. As you note, that was not the case in 1939.
More tellingly, perhaps, when Hitler soon betrayed Stalin, and the players came about, Finland then declared war on the USSR, against Allied wishes.
Scandinavia, not just Finland, had tended to side with Hitler in any event, especially Sweden. Sweden sided with him for the rest of the war.
When they pushed back not only to the border beyond which Stalin had transgressed, and sought opportunistically, to take Soviet territory, at the time that Stalin was fighting Hitler for his life somewhat on the Allied side, the Finns refused to cease their aggression and Britain declared war against Finland, resulting in their loss of that war as well.
So, the Finns really lost 2 wars against Stalin in 2 years.
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