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@oi565 While working in Sweden and Norway, I have met lots of Finns from eastern and northern Finland. They were quite happy that they had learned Swedish in school. I bet you have in your hometown a good deal of return migrants who speak fluent Swedish or Norwegian.

@Gottmituns1610 No problem. But recall that Finland in 1939 was a very heterogeneous nation, with still big tribal differences, and bigger social ones - only 20 yrs had elapsed from the bloody civil war between reds (workers and sharecroppers) and whites (bourgeoise and land owning farmers). Urba...

@EndureFocusEngageDie Din mamma vet inte vad hon pratar om. "Lite krig" existerar inte. Mina föräldrar kröp i skyddsgravarna (pappa som fänrik, mamma som kommunikationslotta); det var ett helvete. Lyckliga ni som slapp (och ära till de 8000 svenskar som frivilligt kom till vår undsättning trots u...

@VVoreN As far as understood you think that all Finns used skis and this film would not be true. But the good skiers were placed north of Ladoga. These guys were from the plains of Ostrobotnia, they were no great skiers and skis were not of much use in the trench war on the southern front between...

@dirtmas Håller helt med. Det är sjukt om man inte får vara stolt över sitt land, dess traditioner och dess symboler. Blev chockad när jag insåg att det betraktas som högerextremistiskt att sy den svenska flaggan i jackärmen. Att ha sy vår finska flagga i ärmen väcker inga motsvarande reaktioner....

@mmikkone The lynx problem is real. Like all felids lynxes have sharp but brittle teeth; they cannot eat frozen meat (that would break their teeth). In cold weather they must therefore make lots of kills to survive. Not their fault but it makes them a problem. At least in Sweden lynxes kill many ...

@TheEmsann Samerna är framförallt samiska och brukar tycka allra minst om sina "landsmän" för det är precis dom som har varit deras främsta förtyckare. En samisk kille från Kiruna frågades i SR om vad som han tyckte om invandrarna. Svaret: "Beror vilka invandre du pratar om. En och annan kurd kan...

@philG36C Hi, we have nothing against Russians (Stalin was not even Russian!) but it would help a lot if Russians had a bit more critical view of the Soviet Union. Victims of a dictator had no choice and no responsibility, free people do. What bothers us is not what you did when you were slaves, ...

@kill3456 When has there been anti -Semitism in Finland? My Jewish relatives cannot recollect it and they bore proudly Finnish war medals with swastika. Swastika was very a common symbol that the Nazi captured. Finns got it earlier from von Rosen (the air force); he donated the first airplane to...

@rakkipallo Really sad to follow this "discussion"; dont' know whom I would dislike most. We are all human beings and Russia has not been blessed by history. A Finnish peasant with bow and arrows could kill armored knights in our deep forsts, the poor Russian on his open plains could not. There y...

@fantasy7004 My parents and their friends fought in the Winter War, lost many friends, but I never heard them say such racist comments about Russians. They regarded the Red Army soldiers as just another group of victims of Stalin's terror rule. Finns had to kill in order to defend Finland, but th...

@MyrensMakt Hard to compare Mannerheim to Stalin. Mannerheim adviced the Finnish govt to accept Stalin's demands. When the war broke out, he did his duty as a soldier, and did it well. But it was also wise of Cajander (prime minister) and Kallio (president) not to listen to Mannerheim. Yielding d...

Revoljutsija vojna?? Do you mean the "revolution" in the captured Terijoki, where Stalin installed Kuusinen's puppet governement? Finnish workers fought AGAINST the Red Army, so did the ethnic Russians of Muolaa and Viborg. No one was welcoming the Red Army in Viborg. Everyone, regardless of clas...

@FalunGongIsAmazing I do not know what you mean. I have no "channel", I just used Google to check the words of the anthem of our Sámi minority, and realized that there were links to other anthems for peoples without a country.

Neither I nor my parents and their friends and relartives, who fought in the war, hate or hated Russians (except for political commissars who shot their own in back if they hesitated). But it would help making friends if this barbaric attack on a small, peaceful neighbor and unlawful capture of t...