Damn, that’s a crazy shot
Still fairly early for color photography, no? Looks incredible.
It has a watermark explicitly saying it’s a colorization. The embossed faux cursive is pretty hard to make out, but it is https://www.jecinci.com/
This is what russian “liberation” looks like.
Just the same with the nazis, who burned every city in Lapland on their way to Norway. Right around the same time too.
They were, but the context there is that the alliance was a pretty direct result of the abject failure of both the Anglo-French Supreme War Council and the League of Nations to do literally anything meaningful in the face of the Soviet invasion in the Winter War.
Germany actually did quietly supply them with war materiel during the war, until some Swedish journalists broke the story, after which Germany prioritized Soviet relations due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. That was one of the main factors that led to the eventual reliance: the Soviets could clearly not be trusted (they invaded); the League of Nations was obviously powerless; the Anglo-French alliance - ostensible allies to Finland - evidently couldn’t find their ass with both hands and completely failed to respond for the entire span of the war; meanwhile, the Germans actually shipped equipment, though they geopolitically had their hands tied with treaty obligations (that they weren’t openly violating at the time).
To be clear, this is not Nazi apologia. This is an explanation of the geopolitical context at the time, and what motivated the eventual alliance between Finland and Nazi Germany, in terms of Finnish motivations: pure pragmatism in the face of an obviously expansionist neighbor with a HUGE military.
Also, yes, as u/grissino said, the Nazis did enjoy burning shit when they had to retreat, regardless of whether it was the territory of an allied nation.
Fuck Russia. Nobody with a sane mind in the EU wants the worthless destructive Muscovites to return.
Certainly can’t think of any other nations that are or were in the EU who did shit like this in the 40’s.
Speaking of which… This is 1944. The savvy history buff might know that the Winter War ended before then, and ask themselves why Karelia is burning in that case?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_War
Oh, look at who Finland is allies with!
The difference is that Germany is ashamed of what they did during that time, and their national ethos is never doing that again.
Meanwhile, Russia idolises the imperialism of the Soviet Union, the only change is that some of their marches have swastikas as well as the hammer and sickle.
Finland had a right to defend itself against the Soviets, and it’s not like the West didn’t ally with a genocidal mass murderer as well.
Nazi simps, lol, just straight up using nationalist slurs while ignoring the actual context of the photo in question and having the sheer fucking GALL to compare those alliances.
All while babbling about how “they don’t repent their history, not like our totally justified alliance with fucking Hitler”
Yes, I know what that sopuli.xyz means, you hypocrite.
The Winter War was one thing, trying to help the Nazis win an actively genocidal war was another.
Damn, I wonder why the Finns would ally with the nazis after being brutally attacked just a few years earlier
The Finns knew beyond doubt about the Holocaust, and they chose to help the nation enacting it out of self interest.
Cope.
You’d be better off pointing out that the President and fascist sympathizer that enacted that alliance was put on trial when the Finns swapped sides after they saw the Nazis were losing and convicted for his crimes, and that they, like Franco and some nations in the Balkans, mostly didn’t comply with Nazi demands to hand over their Jewish population, so in terms of “Aiding the Holocaust” guilt they’re somewhere between Vichy France and Fascist Italy.
Do you know why? Who decided not help Finland to kick the Soviets out of the territory they took? The USA and UK, because you clowns were helping the number 2 ranked murderer, Stalin and sick Bolsheviks. Finland had no choice but to ask fucking Hitler for help. The disgusting part, the Americans and British already knew who the next enemy was after the Nazis were finished off. I always laugh at the Americans who believe in fighting for “Freedom and Democracy,” what a load of bullshit. The Suomi were building a democracy and they were attacked with US military aid sent to the fucking Soviets.