Balderdasher,

After reading your post it sounds to me as if you believe that Stalin's intension's were to conquer all of Finland, am I mistaken here?

If that is the case, what you would say to those who believe that Stalin did not want to conquer all of Finland but only wanted to create a larger "buffer" zone to Russia's second largest city Leningrad, which was at the time only 40 miles away from the Finnish border?

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