Why didn't the Finland just take the Soviet deal and avoid the Winter War? They would've ended up with way more land.
>>18765421They wanted the opportunity to kill thousands of Russhits
>>18765421They saw what happened to the baltic states
>trusting russians>trusting communistscan't blame them for choosing war, better question is why didn't the soviets leave finland alone?
>>18765449They wanted to be free from Finnish settler-colonialism.
>>18765449wanted a buffer zone around Leningrad, as feared Finland would join with either Germany or the West and attack themwhich they ended up doing anyway but it might've been a self-fulfilling prophecy
>>18765421they lost land but they won an identity
>>18765421The Baltics took the deals Soviets proposed them. The next year they got annexed.
>>18765421The Soviets were asking them to exchange away their most fortified border isthmus. The existence of that area was the entire reason they resisted to well.Trading your defensible chokepoint and fortifications, leaving your second largest city open to attack and stationing a decapitation force at Hanko near Helsinki in exchange for worthless undeveloped forest isn't a good idea. Especially when you've just seen what happened to the Baltics. >>18765575Definitely self-fulfilling. Germany was happy to blockade Finland for the Soviets' benefit during the war, it's only due to the war Germany saw them as a viable ally for '41.
>>18765421Commies aren’t people
>>18765421Like how giving the nazis sudetenland brought the "peace in our time"?
>>18765448They didn't
>>18766127Yes because that happened after the Winter War.
