I'm asking you Americans. It appears when our President, Tarja Halonen broached the subject with Mr Bush he was dismissive of the subject and was not willing to negotiate.
For the uninitiated, Finland was at war with USSR but was not formally allied with the Axis during WW2 but was attacked by the USSR in order for them to either create a "buffer zone", or to reclaim the whole country.
USA did not under any time declare war against Finland despite allying itself with the USSR, but Great Britain did.
Finns did receive aid from Nazi-Germany, to a small extent. But Finns did not export Jews or persecute on behalf of the Nazi party, and were governed by a stable democracy.
This is a political issue, not a historic one, I'm afraid. It is of course useless to talk about this with the Russians who at this date do not even recognize that they started the war, but consider it a part of their "Great Patriotic Front"- a justified war against an aggressor.
Any support for this? Views?
2007-01-04
04:53:46
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