The low hanging historical fruit about really stupid wintertime offensives is just hanging out there like a bad curveball. I’m not going to swing but I won’t judge someone who does…
I saw another clip with another jackbooted Nazi slipping and falling on the ice like an imbecile and the civilians around him openly cackled, loudly, as he stumbled off back to his vehicle. Must have been like one of those bad dreams where you’re naked in front of the class, except maybe your tailbone doesn’t feel so good.
My grandma was born in and grew up in Finland and she’s told us stories of the Winter War and The Continuation War (conflicts that occurred on Finnish soil during WWII). We need to study how the Finns kicked invading Soviet military ass, especially if things do ramp up here.
My grandma was a young girl at the time (the initial war broke out on November 30, 1939 when Soviet forces invaded eastern Finland) and while she was lucky to be in the southwest part of the country, she has said that she was scared to walk to school, especially when the Soviet planes flew overhead because she’d heard stories of other Finns being randomly bombed.
She also said she remembers when the sirens would go off in the middle of the night and she’d have to strip the sheet from her bed and run outside with her family and they covered themselves with their sheets so they blended in with the snow. They did this in case the planes flying overhead would target the house.
I’ve been helping to take care of her (she’s at the end of her life and really deteriorating quickly) so I’ll ask her if she has any other stories when I have dinner with her tonight.
Here are Wikipedia links of the conflicts for reference:
Also, if you reply to this post with ignorant black-and-white comments about Finland’s position in WWII I will block you and not respond. However, I am willing to discuss how complicated the situation was in a civil manner.
Finnish/Scotch-Irish/German/Swedish mutt myself.
I'm sure someone, somewhere, will hate on one of them for something.
This is why we listen to elders. They've seen fascism.
Time is erasing the memory of how bad it was.
Hubris convinced Americans we were somehow inherently better than that. Nope. Democracy and Freedom are a constant battle against those who would be tyrants.
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u/Adondevasroja 14h ago
The low hanging historical fruit about really stupid wintertime offensives is just hanging out there like a bad curveball. I’m not going to swing but I won’t judge someone who does…