Why was the Soviet Union unable to conquer Finland?
Finnish meme supremacy.Yes, this very simple yet small sentence has several meanings, all of which apply in this context.
>>17435912They were in the middle of the Great purge and so their up in coming officers were largely incompetent
someone ring up the archive and find out how many of these shitty juvenile threads about the winter war we've had in the last 10 years of this board's sorry existence
>>17435917>>17436033Why does this war make leftists seethe so much?
>>17436033Go back to your religion threads full of mexshitcans, fag. This is a history board.
>>17436036It doesn’t + Finland was under a left wing government with the SDP in charge
>>17436036muh leftists
>>17436038don't be late for homeroom tomorrow, lil zoomie
>>17435912They gave up on it when they saw the total rejection of communism in Finland. That meant that they would have to expend incredible resources on purges and enforcement if they occupied it, which was totally not worth it. Instead they made it a satellite.
>>17436033It's no worse than shitty juvenile threads about Hitler or Christianity
>>17436036mind = broken
>>17435912Soviet bvlls then went on to control Finland and have military bases on its coast until the end of the Cold War
>>17435912It's not unlike Scotland or Germany for the Romans. The Finns fought hard, and what they had just wasn't worth that fight, even though Finnish defences were breaking by the end of the Winter War. Long-term the Soviets got their islands, their Petsamo nickel and their Petrograd buffer, while the Finnish government remained friendly to Soviet interests and kept themselves out of the western sphere and NATO. And some may have held naive beliefs about the inevitability of revolution in Finland.
>>17435912the original ukraine war literally 80% of it was made up
>>17435912>ask for land>Finns say no>take land anyway>rematch featuring Literally Hitler>Finns lose again
>>17437497More like the Finns refused to fight the second time, then kicked the krauts out of their country with no outside assistance.
