Saying that Fins were Nazi collaborators is true, but it's also oversimplified. Finland helped Germany mainly because, they wanted to reclaim land they lost to USSR after the Winter War 1939-1940 - in which USSR was an aggressor. So yeah they helped Germans, but not because they sympathised with Nazi ideology, but because they wanted to regain part of their Motherland. USSR was no angel! These kind of post only show that Soviet (and now Russian) propaganda is very succesful.
Edit: Stalin with Ribbentrop singning Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (division of Poland)
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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.