r/ShitAmericansSay • u/woodhead2011 • 4d ago

Finland enjoyed the protection of the American nuclear deturance, which we paid for, before & now that you've finally joined NATO! This is why the Soviet's didn't take all of Finland with their millions of troops & superior military. You'd be speaking Russian without US. FACT. 🤡

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u/Morlakar 4d ago

They never heard about the deadliest sniper in human history. A guy called Simo Häyhä. Spoiler, that guy is not an US-American.
The last time Russia tried to take Finland by force it didn't work well for Russia.

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 4d ago

They did take back land the next year, starting the Continuation war where they were ostensibly allied to Germany but were actually fighting to regain their land for the most part. Eventually Moscow got it all back, and more, so a net loss to Finland, altough Moscow wanted it all and lost far too many soldiers getting what they could. Finland had crushing reparations which left them after the war stuck in the middle between NATO and Soviets superpowers, having to trade with Russia against their will.

Russia still doesn't trust them, they have a rabid hatred of all countries that were forced to ally with Germany or accept German bases against their will. Russia still calls the Baltic nations "Nazis" every time they try to erase signs of past Soviet occupations. Finland remember had earlier gotten independence from Russia, then had its own short civil war or reds vs whites (like much of Europe), so they absolutely were in no mood to allow Russia to take them back. A choice between two evil dictators and they weren't large enough to stand up to both at the same time, the two largest war machines in the world at the time.

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u/RustyKn1ght 4d ago

It's really rich of them keep calling everyone else nazis, when good chunk of their "private" military companies have far-right connections. Hell, the late Dmitri Utkin (One of the founders of Wagner-group) was so covered in nazi-symbol tattoos, that showing him shirtless automatically demonitized the video on Youtube.