-Finland goes Communist and joins the Warsaw Pact. The Communist Party of Finland rules with an iron fist until 1989 when Communism collapses.
Butterflies apply. Finland in the Warsaw Pact might mean Gorbachev never ends up as General Secretary.
-Finland goes Communist and joins the Warsaw Pact. The Communist Party of Finland rules with an iron fist until 1989 when Communism collapses.
Where would Kekkonen be in a Red Finland?
Finland backed out of the war in 1944 and Stalin accepted, even though the Red Army was really on a roll that year and could have waltzed right into Helsinki if Stalin had wanted it to. So what if Stalin decided to dedicate a couple hundred thousand men to the conquest of Finland and create the "People's Republic of Finland"? What would be the rammifications? I wonder why he didn't.
Finland backed out of the war in 1944 and Stalin accepted, even though the Red Army was really on a roll that year and could have waltzed right into Helsinki if Stalin had wanted it to. So what if Stalin decided to dedicate a couple hundred thousand men to the conquest of Finland and create the "People's Republic of Finland"? What would be the rammifications? I wonder why he didn't.
Another question would be what the fate of von Mannerheim could be...