1:32 Soviet 350 casualties whan The white dead killed 500

a funny part of the battle of tornio was that the division that conquered tornio ended up finding booze deposits in the city and getting drunk for days, ultimately ending up in them almost getting caught with their pants down.

The Russians forced Finland into that war !!

both my great grand father on my mother side fought in against the soviets and germans

Bro i immediately recognized which lake was on the map when you introduced the motti tactics, and I can gladly say they never made it that far

Whitewashing Finish fascists? Good for you.

2:20 we didn't lose

Every Finnish person knows this, we survived WW2 and we consider that a victory, since we didn't end up under soviet occupation, the worst fate.

7:56 the river shown here does not even exist. The lower parts of it resemble Kemijoki's course, yet the upper ones don't, as it crosses a watershed in your map. The correct river, Olhavanjoki, is way smaller, being only 29 kilometers long. You can't even find it on bigger, zoomed-out maps.

Are you Dutch?

bro Lappland is in Sweden

What a stupid video

The govermnet of Finland and Germany werent close close, sure, but it was for example the government that didnt want to actually fight the germans until we were forced to. Also many high ranking ppl in military and government liked germany bc since we had been allies since out civil war, specifically with more right wing goverments. Also just before out surender to USSR we kinda asked germany to give is weapons, and they did so, once we promiced we wouldn't make a truce with ussr

i think you misrepresented the soviet demands. the soviet demand was for Karjala not Helsinki. its still a big deal (karjala was one of the most industrialized regions in Finland), i dont think it was necessary to pretend what they wanted was much more.

is this made by a fellow swed???

My grandmothers first husband died in the last days of war against Germany. It's wild to think that if he hadn't died I would have never been born. She later re-married and had 7 more children, one being my mother.

Im sure that making such video carried a lotta of fckng work, but the result was just amazing. Good job. Youve got a new subscriber, and a new like. Keep making videos like that :)

Finland basically used napoleon tactics

finland suffered 70000 cassualties?

This was enjoyable, thanks!

Literally Sam onella

14:42 you forget to mention "czechoslowakia adjust your borders".

Finland and germany did have a small bond yes but they both planned out the war in advance and finland didnt just take advantage

there is around 5k germans in vojvodina, how the fuck is that 26%?!?!?

3:00 - This is incorrect. Finland participated in the war as a co belligerent of Germany, it was a joint operation, and Finland's aim was to re capture the land it had lost. The wording is abysmal, as it was not Finland starting a war.

Fun fact, every time someone brings up Finland in WW2 hundreds of morons flock to defend their favourite Axis ally because "muh USSR winter war forced them".

I think Hitler offered to split Poland, not Stalin.

2:37 As in any other video too, Finland's geopolitical situation is fully ignored. Take a look at the map in June 1941. Make sure you look at the whole Nordic and Baltic Sea region. Germany had occupied Norway and Denmark. Sweden did not want to participate in the upcoming war in any way. Finland had no land or sea route to other countries. They were completely surrounded by the Soviets and the Nazis, and they were well aware that their country was a about to become a battleground. As a free and democratic country Finland was more than willing to have a treaty with Great Britain and France *before* they had completely failed to help Poland or other countries or even themselves. Yes, the Finns were bitter for losing their second biggest city (Viipuri) and for having to evacuate over 10% of population elsewhere. But it is a huge oversimplification to say it was just about getting their land back. Many Finnish leaders did not believe in victory, not even in 1941 and certainly never later since the main objectives of Operation Barbarossa were not achieved in time. Despite Hitler's demands and threats Finland refused to cut the Murmansk railroad which was very vital to the whole Soviet Union. They also refused to bomb Leningrad. The Finnish government had a very careful approach in this matter. This was well known at the time. The Western Allies understood that Finland was in the worst possible situation and USA even maintained diplomatic relations to get them out of the war. The Finns were even so desperate that they suggested the UK and USA to make a landing in Lapland. This was naturally refused by them because Finland was not willing to surrender to the Soviet Union. Finland was allowed to keep its independence because they withdrew from the war at the right moment and drove the Germans away.

sweden just chiling

"After the defeat of our army, Stalin lost his nerve" (Nikita Khrushchev, Liaison between Stalin and his generals). In 1944, all the nine (9)attempted breakthroughs failed - of one of them it says, "Red army failed to break through Finnish defences", and "some of the attackers managed to escape back to East". In one of the decisive battles (Tali/Ihantala), the Soviets lost 300 tanks in ONE DAY! Stalin gave up; the price was too high; also, he wanted to get to Berlin before the Allied; hence his coming to the negotiation table. Keeping in mind here; the orders to Red Army were very clear in 1944: "Brute and total occupation of Finland." "In Helsinki in a fortnight!" (Molotov). "In Helsinki by Stalin's birthday" - 18.12.1939 (Meretzikov). Alas! no Soviet boot trambled the streets Helsinki in 1939, not in 1944 (one of a few cities of Europe that was not overun by enemy forces). Ps. correction - Finland lost 25 000 dead in the Winter war, and 75 000 during the Continuation war.

Why the hell do you sound so freaky

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i like my country to be a puppet of the Soviet Union

The Germans only set fire in Lapland and there was 3 wars but not More

In 2022: Serbian 68,43%, Hungarian 10,48%, Roma 2,35%, Slovaks 2,29%, Croats 1,88%, Romanians 1,13%, ... There's no point for autonomy now.

Vojvodina is Hungary 🇭🇺🦅🇦🇱

I hope they will get their independence

Since we're including personal unions here, the duchies Slesvig, Holsten and Lauenborg probably would have been decent inclusions. Would also have been a good opportunity to rub some salt in the wound at us :p

Long live Serbia 🇷🇸

My neighbour was from Finland, and was living there when the Ussr attacked. She saw her mother murdered by Soviet troops in cold blood. She was only about 10 years old at the time. It really messed her up. She passed away several years ago, but she was still very much screwed up over seeing that until she died. 😢

no mention of Finnish participation in the blockade of Leningrad and atrocities in Karelia

Sweden and Switzerland: What a Great Movie

Once again, Germany took a huge L during this war. Adolf thought he did something fr fr skull emoji. However bro was absolutely cooked by british forces. W in the chat... for the United Kingdom

Can you just adjust the border finland!

Finland didn't start the continuation war, they started bombing again when hitler attacked and said in a speech that Finland is with them.

Learn english bro

Noticed the “350”

I love how according to this, the collapse of tge soviet union eould be every ssr other than russia going: "RUSSIA, *CHANGE YOUR BORDERS!*