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Originally Posted by Sloniksp
Von,
All of the information available on the matter would contradict such an observation. Stalin did not want to conquer Finland but only as Za correctly pointed out, to create a buffer zone for Russia's second largest city ( A legitimate reason as wars have been fought for less ). If Stalin wanted Finland, then he could have very well taken the opportunity of exacting revenge on the Fins as retribution for supporting Hitler and breaking the Moscow peace treaty but he did not. Instead, Stalin just took back the territories agreed upon after the Winter War between Finland and Soviet Union.
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Sloniksp
Was it not that the Soviet Union after been rebuffed by an independant sovereign Finland over territorial demands finally invaded and it was during this invasion that the League of Nations finally booted the Soviet Union out of the League of Nations for it's unprovoked invasion of Finland.
Also how many of those Finish POW's in Soviet hands returned to Finland, not many. Stalin dealt with breakaway territoried harshly, out of the 50,000 sevice troops in the Baltic States that were rounded up, only a handful came out of the war alive, we are talking about a monster that under his reign of terror murdered around 25 million of his own citizens.
I do believe that come hell or high water Stalin would eventually invade Western Europe after the Western Powers beat the you know what out of each other.
v.R