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First of all, I have to say that I am not interested in any PoD during WWI/WWII or before WWII. Basically, I am reading Tony Judt's "Postwar. History of Europe since 1945". Judt mentions that the Western backlash against the Czech communist takeover in February 1948 saved the Finns from becoming another Soviet satellite.

How? Stalin in April '48 signed the Friendship Treaty with the Finns and thus his attempts to unite the social democrats (by splitting them) to the communist 'Finnish People's Democratic League' failed, unlike other countries that went communist in which socialist/social-democratic parties were absorbed by communists during the takeovers in 1947-1948.

How could a commie Finland be achieved? I guess that by not having the Czech communist take over the Czech government violently. But well I was looking at a Finnish internal PoD.

However I am more interested in what would have happened had the communists and Stalin succeeded.

1. Would Mauno Pekkala become Finland's communist dictator?
2. If so, given Wikipedia's limited information of the FPDL, who could have been his successor and his policies?
3. Also, how could this affect Swedish minorities and relations with Sweden?

PS: Umm... I feel this is my first well-researched question in the post-1900 forums.
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