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Certainly can't think of any other nations that are or were in the EU who did shit like this in the 40's.
Speaking of which... This is 1944. The savvy history buff might know that the Winter War ended before then, and ask themselves why Karelia is burning in that case?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War
Oh, look at who Finland is allies with!
Damn, I wonder why the Finns would ally with the nazis after being brutally attacked just a few years earlier
The Finns knew beyond doubt about the Holocaust, and they chose to help the nation enacting it out of self interest.
Cope.
You'd be better off pointing out that the President and fascist sympathizer that enacted that alliance was put on trial when the Finns swapped sides after they saw the Nazis were losing and convicted for his crimes, and that they, like Franco and some nations in the Balkans, mostly didn't comply with Nazi demands to hand over their Jewish population, so in terms of "Aiding the Holocaust" guilt they're somewhere between Vichy France and Fascist Italy.
The idea that Risto Ryti was a fascist sympathizer is... a reach.
Finland is... between Vichy France and Fascist Italy in Holocaust guilt?
Vichy France and Fascist Italy both gleefully shipped off their Jewish populations to be murdered. The Finns took a horrific side, but at no point did they give up their own Jewish citizens to the Nazis.
Vichy France and Fascist Italy were both much more gruesome and eager collaborators.
Finland is slightly better than the Soviet Union in that their Nazi collaboration was in response to a mass campaign of ethnic cleansing (of almost half a million Finns expelled by the Soviets after the unjustified aggression of the Winter War) rather than preceded by a mass campaign of ethnic cleansing (of Poles in the USSR by the Soviets before the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland). Both remain unconscionable.
1: If "sympathizer" is a reach it's only because "collaborator and ally" is more damning and accurate.
2: And Italy was divided enough over fascism to fight a civil war and have a native resistance when offered a chance, instead of swapping sides when it was clear their preferred side was losing. They still willingly and knowingly enabled the Holocaust, and a war with the Soviets that they knew was both ideologically and racially motivated with plans for extermination and mass slavery.
If you'd like some reading on the topic of their knowing collaboration with the Nazi plans:
https://humanityinaction.org/knowledge_detail/helsinki-on-the-brink-finland-and-the-holocaust-era/
I think they do a pretty good job of staying as unbiased as possible in it.
3: It wasn't an ethnic cleansing, it was a voluntary evacuation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_of_Finnish_Karelia
Though, of course, that half a million people voluntarily evacuated rather than being part of Stalin's USSR says a lot in itself.
The difference is that Germany is ashamed of what they did during that time, and their national ethos is never doing that again.
Meanwhile, Russia idolises the imperialism of the Soviet Union, the only change is that some of their marches have swastikas as well as the hammer and sickle.
Finland had a right to defend itself against the Soviets, and it's not like the West didn't ally with a genocidal mass murderer as well.
Nazi simps, lol, just straight up using nationalist slurs while ignoring the actual context of the photo in question and having the sheer fucking GALL to compare those alliances.
All while babbling about how "they don't repent their history, not like our totally justified alliance with fucking Hitler"
Yes, I know what that sopuli.xyz means, you hypocrite.
The Winter War was one thing, trying to help the Nazis win an actively genocidal war was another.
I'm not Finnish. And what nationalist slurs?
The US helped win an actively genocidal war for Stalin. I don't fault them, even though a US bombing run caused lifelong suffering to my loved ones, because on the Eastern front there were no good guys, and using one mass murderer to kill another is fair.
All I'm saying is that there is no difference between the genocidal imperialism of Hitler, and the genocidal imperialism of Stalin. Both murdered millions, yet only one of them has a following in their homeland that is not actively persecuted.
In the most of Eastern Europe, where these madmen committed their crimes, if you wave a swastika flag around, or one with a hammer and sickle, you are going to jail either way, as it should be. Just like in Germany. Why not in Russia?
Shouldn't you be defending Kursk right now or something?
I'm an anarchist, but nice try, shitlib.