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I hear you mate...There is a lot of common in our culture...and I do think that we are part of that...no borders needed, I can see the culture you mean..!
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Finland is not Scandinavia.
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I hear you mate...There is a lot of common in our culture...and I do think that we are part of that...no borders needed, I can see the culture you mean..!
I hope I didnt personally offended you arcticsun, co´s I think you as a bro! I agree Norway & Finlands upper parts have very tight history, but this all started when some ***** throwed these claims! We all have some similar cultural habits in: Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and I agree you about the borders, but this was about the borders/areas originally...
But.. Aint the new Nordic -forum more accurate than Scandinavian, since it started (once again) centuries old debate + some sad nationalism???
Once again, sorry if I offended you in any way, wasnt my purpose bro, you know I think you as a bro?
But.. Aint the new Nordic -forum more accurate than Scandinavian, since it started (once again) centuries old debate + some sad nationalism???
Once again, sorry if I offended you in any way, wasnt my purpose bro, you know I think you as a bro?
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i love you guys 
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Finish army stopped red army???!!!)))
OMg))
Still don't understand why you see my posts as flaming
but I think I'd better shut up before the topic get messed too much..
Every person who learns the meaning and the origin of the word-combination "molotov cocktail" meets the history of the Soviet-Finnish War 1939-40.
I've read some info about this war years back and I know some details of that deal. This story is not as much populated in history classes in schools.
They inform in very short words that it was strategically needed and after a big losses stalin & molotov' ussr was succeed in getting some territories near S.Petersburg (aka Leningrad) for the sake of military defense of the city. Btw it didn't help Leningrad in WW2.
Imo it was one of the most terrible, tragic and shameful pages in Soviet part of my Russian history. There is absolutely nothing to be proud of. As Russians as other people lost a huge amount of lives due to stupid aggresive communism but to be honest nor stalin nor most of his administration weren't russians ethnically, they speak absolutely another language, as well as ideas of communism.
Mannerheim was a genius of providence provided very good fortification ingeneering. Brave soldiers, clever and heroic people of Finland. All this is true.
But this war wouldn't ever stop in spite of huge human losses that meant nothing to stalin & co.
They planned a quick win like at Baltics, failed, hurried up to win before stalin's birthday, failed again, tried to continue and weren't going to stop but after the warning from Britain were faced to risk of a second front on south vs Britain. And I agree with a statement that namely this turn had stopped aggression.
Links fo russian readers-
http://valhalla.ulver.com/f39/t12220.html Станислав ГРАЧЕВ Лев сражается с мышонком или Россия, кровью умытая. Советско - финская война 1939-40 гг.
http://militera.lib.ru/memo/other/mannerheim/index.html Зимняя война
It's really ironic but I also think Finland is not part of Scandinavia that is geo-political unit as like BeNeLux.
Btw Petsamo-Kirkeness 7-29 oct 1944 operation also is not well known here. Twice I've heard from people about Russians in Norway in WW2, and both were Norwegians.
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As far as i know, of all the countries bordering Russia, Norway is the ONLY country who has never suffered armed attacks from Russia.
Furthermore, it was Russian troops who fought the germans out of Norway during WW2.
there is no such thing as an exclusive norway-denmark-sweden cooperation like with the be-ne-lux countries. there is however the nordic council in which finland is a member. infact i know of no bi-latteral agreement which includes only norway denmark and sweden and excludes finland.
http://www.ymparisto.fi/default.asp?node=16161&lan=en
does anyone remember this case a few years back?
I thought Norway was recaptured with hardly a shot fired ? The Germans knew their time was up and scarpered ? I have family over there, in the South around Sandefijord & Skien and there was no real fighting there IIRC.
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there is a boom on warmovies in norway at the moment, and if you are interrested in the area and the history i am sure you will find these productions interresting, and a good watch.
http://blog.norway.com/tag/wwii/ <-- about some upcoming features
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-KQh87_V2Q <--nazi-zombie slasher movie from north norway. prod 09'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbK4WTQFf9U <-- excellent big production about some heroes of the norwegian resistance. prod 08'.
down south there was no fighting at the end of the war, it was a quiet capitulation. that wasnt the case for the north however
Aha, thanks, explains a lot. The South I know has few scars or signs of WW2, and the scorched earth policy certainly did not run to the south where they left quite a few ancient Stave Churches, for the Black Metal fans to later, er, scorch ;-)
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hehe dont worry benefit my friend, the topic is dead long ago
we are just having some brotherly fun
we are just having some brotherly fun
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The cocks will not fly, and are against TOU.. Cause it's pr0n.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEK_gLghuFg
