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So no help from Adolf there...
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Or from Sweden, Britain or France or anyone else.

It must have been a hard decision to make, Finland alone, taking on a power like the Soviet Union with virtually no chance of winning.

By all accounts the casualties suffered by Finland, if on a per head of population compared to the U.S. would have been several million.

After the Soviets had finally succeeded in breaking through the Mannerheim Line,
how long do you think Finland could have held out, a few weeks, a couple of months?


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Possibly off-topic, Kai, after 1945 what exactly happened so that Finland managed to deflect an occuation like Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc, and not entering the Warsaw Pact?
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That gives you food for thought that Stalin would have been satisfied with the exchange of territory in '39 and not invaded Finland.

He had the perfect excuse to over run and occupy Finland as a Ally of the Nazis in the continuation war, but stayed pretty much to the Winter war borders.