The Finns: Were They Helpful Or Harmful To The Allies?

The Finns were strong people. They lived in the cold lands where, surely, nobody else would be willing to. With temperatures frequently in the negative twenties, and a short summer, surely nobody would take their land from them. Nobody except the Soviets, that was. The people themselves acted like they were in hiding or exile from the rest of Europe. Reserved, not quick to talk to people. When they did speak, usually, they only said what they needed and smalltalk wasn 't one of their strong suits. But now, that the Union of Socalist Soviet Republics was trying to take their soil from them, their mines from them, there was an outcry like nothing before. Not even the six hundred and sixty years of Swedish rule would be resented. The Soviets were met with firm resistance. But even now, even after so many battles won by the Fins, the Union would continue to try to force the country into an unconditional surrender.
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This attack was just one of many. Border skirmishes were common things. The Soviets weren 't the kind of people to listen to

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The Germans were helpful allies, in all of this. Even though Finland, in accepting their help, had caused the Allies to frown upon the country, it had proved quite useful. The Nazis, as cruel of a people as they were, and the Finns held a similar hatred of the USSR. It was the Germans that knew a similar pain, but perhaps even a stronger one, as they used to be allies with the Soviets themselves. The Finns and Germans felt the same burning passion, so they faught togeather to push back the Union. The Germans had remarkable new technologies that they shared with the Finns. And while the Germans were their comrades, Finns and Germans were quite different people at heart, nearly opposite personalities. The Finns were, typically, more aloof and anti-social, while the Germans were quite loud and boisterous in attitude. Most of them would rather spent their nights drinking and partying into the early morning. It gave Suomaa a