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.
Finland conversely viewed the Soviet Union's territory as very divisible and Finnish nationalists had been itching since 1918 to carve out Soviet territory for their Greater Finland pipe dream and even took a crack at it at various points