If the Reds had won in the Finnish Civil War, and Finland became a Soviet Republic, its plausible some Finnish majority military units will end up being formed (by accident if not on purpose). Station them in the Far East (where its cold, but dubious loyalty will not be a problemI think finns fighting japanese would be the most awesome WW2 battle ever. But how can we make it happen? Finland and Japan are half the world apart and both Third Reich's allies.
Any ideas?
If the Reds had won in the Finnish Civil War, and Finland became a Soviet Republic, its plausible some Finnish majority military units will end up being formed (by accident if not on purpose). Station them in the Far East (where its cold, but dubious loyalty will not be a problem), and they can see action in some of the Soviet-Japanese border clashes.
And there's my answer to your challenge!![]()
Heh, as they say, great minds think alike. ^_^Ninja'd (somewhat)
I see that you had a similar ideea to mine, but you choose to go with an all red victory. I didn't consider this option because I think a red Finland would be much closer to Russia (to the point of becoming just another SSR), and thus any red finnish troops would be only ethnically finnish, but doctrinally soviet/russian. I think a white victory (in both countries) would have a greater chance of producing a Finnish army like the one in OTL.
Of course, your scenario has a greater chance of producing a world war 2 like in OTL![]()
Poor guys, they probably ended up spending years saving up money to go back to Korea only to return just in time to be drafted in the Korean War.Well...... Have a lot of POWs being captured in one of the Soviet-Japanese border clashes, then forcing them to fight for the Red Army could work. After all, there are the cases of Koreans being forced to fight in the Kantogun, Red Army, and the German forces, ending up in Normandy of all places.
Almost all of them settled in the US, although there is the example of my second cousin/fiancé's grandfather, who was conscripted into the KPA and then switched to fight for the ROKA, after all that mess (never mind his superior at the Kantogun was my own paternal grandfather).Poor guys, they probably ended up spending years saving up money to go back to Korea only to return just in time to be drafted in the Korean War.![]()
Wow, thats really interesting! Hope that story has a happy ending tho.Almost all of them settled in the US, although there is the example of my second cousin/fiancé's grandfather, who was conscripted into the KPA and then switched to fight for the ROKA, after all that mess (never mind his superior at the Kantogun was my own paternal grandfather).