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Do you have any recommendations for sources on the winter war. Wikipedia lists the casualty ratio at ~1:5 in Finland's favor, and ofc they include sick and frostbitten amongst the soviet losses and don't appear to for the Finns.
Yeah, I would also be interested. I was speaking to someone recently who was saying the Soviet Army was so poorly prepared without skis and white camo that they were just laughably destroyed by Finland.
I found War and Peace in Finland but it seems dated and I also haven't read through it, honestly.
wrote up some stuff in https://hexbear.net/comment/4872372, no modern literature in english atleast, sorry about that.
You're going to want the Finnish Civil War: History, Memory, Legacy. It goes into great detail about the fascist revisionist historiography.
Thanks, babe.
Some articles: Espressostalinist and Lalkar
then there's this from a yank general, working closer to the time so the propaganda hasnt had time to fester yet
The whole myth is very similar to the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae one. Facing against impossible odds the heroes managed to stop the asiatic hordes until they gave up on their dreams of conquest and settled for only small territorial changes. In the spartan case, they lost the most defensible location that was supposed to hold for months if not years in a few days and lost their king along with his elite guard. In the finnish case the Mannerheim line was the most heavily entrenched fortified line, apparentely even better than the Maginot line, but the soviets smashed through it in horrifying conditions in 3 months. Same in the continuation war actually, our brave heroes built fortifications for years, but the red army went through them in 2 weeks. The cope in both is always that, we were causing them so many casualties that they had to sue for peace instead of total conquest, which is just hilariously untrue in both cases.
Here's an article (in finnish) from our ML communist party about the civil war and how it was written about, all of this is pretty much the same for winter war
Translated with DeepL.com (its good with finnish, folks)
Here's an article from our other communist party (in finnish again) about the nature of finnish russophobia and how it's always been an anti-communist tool from the beginning
Translated with DeepL.com (ok it's "pretty" good, if you get weird sentences you need to click on the words to see what the alternatives are and hope that makes more sense)
I like best how Hitler got owned partly because he got the idea that Russia was a rotten structure from looking at the outcome of this war.
So NATO and the gang have adopted that exact view
You're going to want the Finnish Civil War: History, Memory, Legacy. It goes into great detail about the fascist revisionist historiography. It's on Library Genesis.