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  1. DrakonFin

    USSR gets absolute victory in the Winter War, effects on WW2.

    There would be pretty much necessarily a Finnish resistance movement against the occupiers, based on both military and Civil Guard structures going underground. There is a lot of forests and wilderness in Finland to hide in. And there would be a major exodus of Finns out of the country, mainly...
  2. DrakonFin

    USSR gets absolute victory in the Winter War, effects on WW2.

    I realized that right after I answered, so I amended my post.
  3. DrakonFin

    USSR gets absolute victory in the Winter War, effects on WW2.

    Well, what do you think? They said "no" to relatively small border changes in November. They would not have agreed to what would have amounted to Soviet occupation in March 1940, they would have rather kept fighting. The war would have likely ended in a Soviet occupation and annexation of...
  4. DrakonFin

    Wars that could have happened, but didn't.

    WWI was pretty popular in all European combatant countries at first, and nationalist feelings running high. Several years and countless deaths later, people's views changed rather steeply. Sweden suffered from food shortages IOTL as it was, and things would be even worse ITTL. By 1917 or so, how...
  5. DrakonFin

    Wars that could have happened, but didn't.

    The Swedish left was very much against the war at the time. What would be ironic would be the CP very nearly (and very narrowly) winning the general war with the help of Swedish support, until heavy losses on the Finnish front, food shortages, and other issues lead to the Swedish government...
  6. DrakonFin

    Consequences of Leningrad falling in 1941-42?

    IMHO, it is not very likely for the Red Army to put up a significantly worse effort in the Winter War than IOTL, the OTL result was very good and lucky for the Finns as it was. Just prior to the Winter War, many people in important positions believed that the Finnish military could not prevail...
  7. DrakonFin

    Consequences of Leningrad falling in 1941-42?

    Sorry, I had the wrong year there. Bases in the Baltic states were already occupied by the Soviet military since October 1939, based on the "mutual assistance treaties" Moscow forced on the Baltic states in the fall of 1939. The Soviets for example used airfields in Estonia to bomb Finnish...
  8. DrakonFin

    Consequences of Leningrad falling in 1941-42?

    One important thing to remember is that there already were Soviet troops in the Baltics since late 1939, in bases Moscow forced the Baltics to hand over at the same time they were bullying Finland, too, prior to the Winter War. So, these Red Army bases would necessarily slow down the German...
  9. DrakonFin

    Salvage post Soviet Russian naval & airforces

    Add to that the fact that the Finnish Air Force has been the most Western/US-oriented of our military branches since before the end of the Cold War. You could conceivably see the army or the navy get more than OTL Russian equipment in the 1990s, to help Moscow pay off their Soviet-era debts to...
  10. DrakonFin

    Peace in our time - 1941 or 1943?

    What kind of equipment would that be, and when would it have been provided to Finland?
  11. DrakonFin

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    You are writing a very good timeline here, but it sort of puts me off that you seem to be letting your personal negative attitudes against countries show in the writing. Earlier I have noticed this in terms of Finland's WWII actions, and now you appear to be moralizing about Sweden's neutrality...
  12. DrakonFin

    Leningrad 1943 Instead of Kursk

    It depends. If Germany demands Finland's participation in the occupation of Leningrad, then Finnish resources would not be freed up, rather to the contrary. And even if Finnish troops are freed up, there are only very limited ways they would be realistically used offensively. An attack towards...
  13. DrakonFin

    Your own Spitfire wank

    If the Finnish Air Force had Mk I. Spitfires in signicant numbers, you could also see a Frankenstein version of them in the Continuation War: up-engined with Soviet war booty engines like the "Mörkö-Morane" was IOTL, or maybe German-built engines.
  14. DrakonFin

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    How do the Western Allies have a naval presence on the Baltic Sea, let alone a supremacy? They had no such thing IOTL, and here as well the Danish straits would be heavily mined by 1945. It would be very dangerous and potentially costly to send a Western Allied naval expedition to the northern...
  15. DrakonFin

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    Realistically speaking, it would be *very* unlikely for Sweden to risk war against the USSR, an Allied power, to grab any part of Finland outside the Ålands. And even in the Ålands, the Swedish "expeditionary force" would be likely to blink first and bug out when the Soviet Navy turns up to...
  16. DrakonFin

    America Be Watching With The Popcorn Redux- The Search For A Higher Reaction Score

    I can't see who could win against Kekkonen in 1974, to be honest. Kekkonen deciding to retire himself at that point is the one realistic chance to avoid another term for him, IMO.
  17. DrakonFin

    Of lost monkeys and broken vehicles

    In July 1944, the Soviets have taken Viipuri and reached Lake Saimaa... and the Finnish army is still fighting at the river Svir? The Finnish military leadership has really failed at withdrawing troops from Eastern Karelia ITTL. I wonder why, IOTL they started the withdrawal in June. Here they...
  18. DrakonFin

    Question: Molotov-Ribbentrop without Stalin?

    To be fair, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania saw WWII end as parts of the USSR. In the same timeframe, Britain and France never annexed any of the smaller countries in their backyard. I think we can argue that there was some difference in how much these countries respected the sovereignty of their...
  19. DrakonFin

    Question: Molotov-Ribbentrop without Stalin?

    I just love how cavalier the proposal is about the sovereignty and territorial integrity of smaller nations even when explicitly saying that the goal is to protect their independence, like here:
  20. DrakonFin

    What are some 'highly likely' wars that didn't happen irl but would happen in most other universes?

    I do rather agree. In the Stalin era, an argument could be made for a post-1944 Soviet invasion, given a suitable POD. After 1953, the USSR making a grab at Finland becomes significantly more unlikely.
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