Yeah, like one of the reasons Finland fought the Winter War was because its communist movement was crushed in 1918. Finland was effectively a German puppet state until 1944.
In the intervening years any communist organizing was illegal and their leftist parties couldn't participate in elections. So the idea that 1930s Finland was simply some neutral party who just wanted respect of their borders is goofy.
After the Mäntsälä uprising, the leadership of the Lapua movement was sentenced to light prison sentences. In April 1932, Parliament passed the Amnesty Act, under which the rank and file were not prosecuted. Charges were brought against one hundred people. In November, the Turku Court of Appeal convicted a total of 22 people of sedition and 32 of aiding and abetting it, all with relatively light prison sentences.[269][270] A sympathetic court dismissed the charges of treason and found the Lapuan leaders guilty only of aiding and abetting the sedition. Many officers involved in the rebellion were not charged at all in court. Vuorimaa and Terä received the harshest sentences, two and a half years in a disciplinary prison. Kosola and Wallenius received nine-month suspended prison sentences. The Supreme Court later extended the sentences slightly.[269]
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Yeah, like one of the reasons Finland fought the Winter War was because its communist movement was crushed in 1918. Finland was effectively a German puppet state until 1944.
In the intervening years any communist organizing was illegal and their leftist parties couldn't participate in elections. So the idea that 1930s Finland was simply some neutral party who just wanted respect of their borders is goofy.
There was also a far-right group attacking communists after the Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua_Movement
Translated from here also :surprised-pika:
more context for the prison sentencing
fash doing a coup :so-true: "Just a poor little fucky ducky, dw about it, fam"
meanwhile communists existing: :frothingfash: "6 years for preparation of a conspiracy to commit treason"
But it was a wholesome heckin' democracy since it had bourgeois elections!
In isolation destroying Brittany is a historical good. So it would have been fair to hear out Germany at the start of the business.