Quote: Originally posted by smc66@Jun 11 2005, 12:34 PM
I'm not sure the Finns would have gone the way of the Baltics. The setting up of the puppet Kuusinen government two days after the Winter War began suggests that Finland may have gone the way of eastern Europe between 1945-48 rather than lose their independence completely. Then again when they did have the oppotunity to do this in 1948 the Soviets took the 'Finlandisation' route instead.
Yes, Finnish choices were limited but they still took choices themselves that moved them into the orbit of the Germans and it is this the British objected to.
| The "Kuusinen Government" was set up in Terijoki, a seaside resort just north of Leningrad, and the Soviets insisted they would only negotiate peace with that state. However, in March 1940, they jettisoned Kuusinen, an American-born Finn (like much of the CPUSA leadership), and he vanished back into deserved obscurity.
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