Thread: Finnish Communists/Socialists vs Russian Communists in the Winter War
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Old February 21st, 2008, 08:23 PM
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Default Re: Finnish Communists/Socialists vs Russian Communists in the Winter War
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Originally Posted by Kai-Petri View Post
I donīt know how many top foreign communists were asked to visit Moscow by Stalin or the Party in the 1930īs but anyway several of them never returned, I know many Finns never came back and also several Polish ones.

the Finnish communists knew what would happen to them because " a true communist did not live outside USSR" in Stalinīs view, they were spies or the sort. Some kinda reason to send them to Gulag anyway. So they decided if not take part in Winter War at least not interfere by causing sabotage.
You have to wonder at how gullible some Communists were. That they wouldn't notice what had happen to others and Stalin's leanings towards killing people with no real reason other then in his head.
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