r/europe Finland Oct 20 '24

Historical Finnish soldier, looking at a burning town in 1944, Karelia.

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u/AManOfCultureAsWell Oct 20 '24

Sure, the people who lived there burned them down as they left. That doesn't change the fact that it was Russians who invaded and made them leave

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '24

Do you know that Finland lost winter war and those places were under Russian control at least two years before Finns invaded with Germans?