Certainly the Soviets were no angels. Regarding the "lost" territory though. The Finns had an opportunity to avoid the Winter War altogether by allowing the Soviets to maintain a base there to help prevent a future invasion of Germany. The Finns refused and were being "gifted" German armaments and munitions long before the Soviet invasion. Also, the Finns "Motherland" has spent more time in the hands of the Swedes and Russians than in the hands of the Finns. One thing I will say for the Finns is that they didn't allow anti-semitism in their country and Germans that served their had to fight alongside Finnish Jews. That is something that is very cool about their conditions of cooperation.
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