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    In 1957 American scholar Charles L. Lundin published his study on Finland in World War II. Lundin left no doubt about the blatant nature of the Soviet attack in 1939, and he was not wholly unsympathetic to Finland’s difficult foreign political position after the Winter War.

    Nevertheless, he denied that Finland was a mere victim caught between the two totalitarian régimes of Soviet Union and Germany: the Finns were not completely innocent in raising Soviet suspicion against Finland before the Winter War and Finland had actively sought to ally itself with [the Third Reich] in 1940–41, thus compromising its democratic principles and political system.9

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    And could the Winter War have been avoidable in the first place? New studies on Finland and the Western Powers in 1939–40 and on Finnish–Swedish relations showed that Finland’s room for maneuver in foreign policy was indeed limited. But they also showed that Finland was not just a passive object in the escalating European conflict: active diplomacy was pursued and several options were kept on the table. Finland was an active agent in its own history.15

    (Emphasis added. Source. Finland’s capitalist press was quite antisemitic, too.)

    [The Kingdom] of Romania during the Holocaust […] provides a unique natural experiment: the neighboring territories of Bessarabia and Transnistria3 contained Jewish populations of similar size in both percentage and aggregate numbers,4 and these two territories were part of the Russian Empire until 1918, after which Bessarabia joined Romania and Transnistria joined the newly established Soviet state.

    During the tsarist period, these territories had been subjected to extreme forms of official state anti‐Semitism, including restrictions on employment, residence, mobility, and implicitly sanctioned or tolerated pogroms against the Jewish population.

    After 1918 the Bessarabian population continued to live under state‐sponsored anti‐Semitism; however, the Transnistrian population experienced a vastly different policy fostered by the Soviet Union, one that included a radically inclusive nationality policy specifically aimed at destroying negative stereotypes of the Jews, fostering positive images, and integrating the marginalized Jewish population into mainstream Soviet society.

    (Emphasis added. Source.)

  • sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    That is believable since The racist Liberals and their Red Fascist tanking tankiejerk alias always repeat the lies that people who sucessfully liberate themselves from oppressive authority will become the oppressors themselves. This logic is a projection by the Liberals of their European colonial authoritarianism, “anti-terrorist” terrorism, and slogan “democracy”.