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From: jarmo@tut.FI (Jarmo Sorvari)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Finnish history (was: UUCP to Russia)
Message-ID: <117@karhu.tut.FI>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 10:14:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 10:14:43 1987
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References: <8710260912.aa15754@note.nsf.gov>
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Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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In article <8710260912.aa15754@note.nsf.gov> fbaube@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Fred Baube) writes:
> Someone check me on this, but my impression is that Finland is
> about the only country the Soviets gave a more than fair shake
> to.

It is mainly because Finland was the only country in the WWII that LOST but
did not get actually INVADED.  The peace was negotiated.

>      The Soviets invaded Finland in the thirties, and the Finns
> made monkeys out of them.

OK, I'm not a native english-speaker, but I understand the word 'invade' means
to enter the country with troops, and gain control.  This is not what
happened.  Finland was never invaded.  The russians attacked in 1939, but they
must have been surprised of how hard Finns faught back.

There is a story (who knows if it's true or not) from the early days of the
war:  in a pocket of a dead Russian officer was found an order not to cross
the Swedish border during the attack!  The war lasted for six years.
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