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Due to limited resources, political and bureaucratic inertia, and a sort of institutional frugality, razing entire towns or neighbourhoods would not be the Finnish way to go. The Finns would keep most buildings that are structurally sound, and only tear down those that are considered to be (for...

Is a "Scandinavian" cooperation and identity stronger ITTL than the "Nordic" development of OTL? The writeup above makes it seem that the knock-on effects involve more cooperation between Sweden, Norway and Denmark, with Finland being left comparatively more to the wayside (and thus under more...

Upon a bit of further reading online, I have to walk back my comments a bit. @Bougnas is right, there was a tentative Finnish plan of rearming the Charioteers with the 105 mm gun, though it seems that in practice it amounted to a single memorandum written in May 1961 (by Eino Ilmonen, an...

As I understand, the Finnish idea was to build a domestic light and mobile tank destroyer around the Charioteer's 84 mm gun (which the British government would have sold to the Finns separately), but the plan fell apart when the initial concept designs appeared to show that the vehicle would...

The problem with Europe, which generally would have decent-sized markets for sports, is that by the time American football would start to make inroads into Europe, these markets are already saturated by different team sports. European football is of course number one, but then there are many...

Thanks. I'll see what I can do, but I have very limited time for the visit, and a lot of folders to go through... :neutral:

I thought there might be people here who can appreciate these photos. I have to admit I hadn't considered how they actually brought the turrets to the fortress islands, but it makes sense that they would have used a T-54/55 hull most of the times, for its mobility in the rocky islands. The...

I've written earlier about the Finnish coastal artillery's 100 TK project from the late 60s and 70s, building fixed coastal artillery positions out of T-55 turrets. Here, then, is a series of photos from the island of Russarö in July 1971, a 100 TK position being built. The photos were taken by...

Finnish Defence Forces training before the War of 1984: All photos from the archives of the Finnish National Administration via the Finnish State Information Office in Mikkeli, FNA. ...ahem, I mean they are from the Finnish Defence Forces Instagram account.

Could you elaborate? An attempt made by whom? It would seem unlikely the Estonians themselves would want to become a Swedish province at that point.

Coming from a country with a multiparty parliamentary system, I'd say that 37% is a very good result in elections, but it does not speak of universal support for a party. A party that gets that amount of votes is popular, but will still need the support of other parties to build a majority...

It expires in September 1944. Finland kept Petsamo after the Winter War. It was lost to the USSR in the Continuation War. The Winter War losses:

Both the Germans and the Finns laid several mine barrages in the Gulf of Finland already by the end of June. Some of this work was done even before the beginning of actual hostilities, and then there were already the defensive minefields both the Finns and the Soviets had been laying in their...

The Kingdom of Finland, under Friedrich Karl of Hessen. Like I have argued before, there is no inevitability of this happening even in a late CP victory. IOTL the scheme was only as likely as it was due to the Finnish Civil War, and the conservative and royalist right in Finland having a...

AFAIK, the Carcano rifles bought from Italy arrived to Finland only after the Winter War. Or maybe some of them arrived during the war (sources disagree), but they in any case were not used during the Winter War. So the Soviets would get to capture them only after the summer of 1941, likely not...

The source for that information is, apparently, the book Heisenberg's War by Thomas Powers, a Pulitzer-winning journalist and acclaimed author. Quoted here: It would be interesting to know what sources Powers was using on that, though.

I'd say that Anna Kreisling is definitely modelled on Hanna Reitsch. But in general, I am convinced she never existed.

Agreed. There are many things about the article that don't pan out in the slightest. It is a collection of misunderstandings, half-truths and pure lies. Just to point out one thing among many, the author claims that a female pilot by the name of Anna Kreisling (called "the White Wolf of the...

Who says that those young Soviet soldiers supported the Soviet system, though, or Moscow's control of Eastern Europe? I know an Estonian man who is still traumatized due to the fact that he had to serve in the Soviet army, even though the USSR was everything he hated. Maybe those young soldiers...

You're welcome. If Finland is not invaded by the Germans or their allies, Finland's position would be dependent whether by the time of the peace Finland is still under Russian control, or whether the Finns themselves have created a country in a post-Russian power vacuum and declared it...