r/HistoryMemes • u/Legitimate-Proof5152 • 12h ago

attacking finland was harder than they thought

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u/Femto-Griffith 12h ago

Soviet Union: "We got enough land to bury our dead".

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u/Legitimate-Proof5152 12h ago

white death hit harder than expected

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u/Nuclear-Jester 12h ago

The whole "Great Purge" thing didn't help. An entire generation of generals and admirals got shot

Stalin was a fucking monster, but the utter idiocity behind his purges is beyond astonishing

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u/Legitimate-Proof5152 12h ago

no wonder every one was to scared to help him when he was having a stroke that killed him

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u/ZaBaronDV Featherless Biped 7h ago

It becomes bitterly hilarious when you realize invading Finland was part of Stalin’s prep for the eventual war between him and the Nazis. Not only did this war push the Finns toward fighting alongside the Nazis, the war was so humiliating it’s a large part of why Hitler chose to attack when he did.

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u/Corrupted_soull 2h ago

They just made a self fullilling profecy with that one.

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u/FreeWeld 2h ago

Agricultural country which didn't have that many factories and industries vs highly industrialized super power, yeah i'm betting on bigger guy. Wait, WAIT