| The Finns didn't invade the Soviet Union. They retook the Finnish land stolen by the Soviets in the Winter War. Mannerheim refused Hitler's requests to push into Russia or to join the siege of Leningrad. The only Russian land occupied was where local geography offered the Finnish Army a better defensive line for the expected counter-attacks. The Finns position was fully understood by Churchill who sent a personal message to Mannerheim regretting that as a Russian ally against Germany, Britain would be forced to declare war on Finland.
Unfortunately for Finland, they were victims of Stalin's aggression and he was allowed to get away with it.
Steve |