Soviets called finns pigs. There was no racial superiority feeling in Finland towards Soviets. Finns called Soviets as Ryssä.SerbTiger wrote:[
But offcourse your version is no we FINNS are peaceful people we don't kill or take foreign land, we only want to establish better borders to protect us from our subhuman neighbours. And because were not "officially" a AXIS country if we keep denying our involvement in WW2 long enough everyone will forget.
I think Adolf Hitler was considered a serious operator and a master of organising an unempoyed country to full employment who had also an effective army with an airforce of proven capabilities. That is why we got friendly with Germans..we wanted something to keep the soviets away from Finland also in the future. Germans OTOH wanted us to attack Soviets for the pay of the weapons..since we wanted Karelia back we had little objections. Really Finland was not offially nor unofficially axis country, but had a common enemy. I have no idea why Hitler hated the soviets so much. He was possibly not sane. I think his idea of destroying the European jews was his main objective, who knows. Maybe he wanted to conquer USSR and when that didn't succeed ( I think there was one plan of settling jews in the areas captured from Soviets ) they started the holocaust. I don't think the massdestruction of jews was known by the finns. Had we known this we might have turned our guns against him earlier. Bear in mind Soviets weren't clean either with 4 000 000 victims of their own people convicted for counterrevolutionary action only. They would have eagerly made Finland a communist too.
cheers,
Juke T