Arguments for cringe: Possibly killed up to 500 Soviet soldiers during The Winter War with the USSR, and is often masturbated to by chuds as a result.

Arguments for based: Him doing this was arguably justified self-defense, as the Soviet Union did initiate the conflict and draw first blood by invading Finland due to them not handing over some land they wanted.

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Thing is "aggression" is a loaded term. The Finnish government was fervently anti-communist, just as much as the regimes of the Baltic States, which had fallen into Nazi orbit on the eve of WWII (leading to their occupation and annexation by the USSR after Molotov-Ribbentrop). There was a very high chance they'd have acted as a staging ground for Nazi troops anyway.

    EDIT: I'm also loathe to call a war "aggressive" when it could have very easily avoided by one side not being stubborn shitheads. This isn't like, say Iraq, where Sadam complied with every demand but the US invaded anyway; or Operation Barbarossa, where the Nazis broke a written non-aggression Treaty because their intent was aggressive from the start.