Stalin wasn't a saint, he was a monster. He killed 3 million Ukrainians (the Germans finished off the rest, thanks for that by the way) and he deserves to be vilified. But to say that he would exterminate the German or Finnish nation when 1) his ideology didn't allow for that, 2) he never explicitly set out such goals as Hitler did in Mein Kampf (the original, unedited version that was available pre-war, not that revisionist nonsense the Heydrich regime tried to foist on us) is asinine.
More than likely he would have done what Communists always do, plundered the people and install a puppet regime.
So you think Stalin would not do something if his ideology would not allow that? Really? Communist ideology, to Stalin, was just a broad set of guidelines. He was a lot more about power and domination than following the writings of a Marx or a Lenin to the letter. He was significantly more about making Russia great again than many leftist revisionists like to talk about. His USSR was a Russian state first of all.
And he did not need to "exterminate" the Finns and the Germans, as such. Breaking the national spirit by killing off the intelligentsia and leading social groups and politicians, officers, law enforcement, etc, then mass forced labour, targeted food shortages, heavy targeted purges in repeated cycles, mass population transfers. Through these he could dilute the original populations in the conquered areas to such numbers that Russian majority would have been assured in the future.
This is what he already started in the Baltic states and Eastern Poland in 1940, and it would have been continued and further intensified had the Germans not attacked. Remember Katyn? I think you all pro-Stalin revisionists should do that. The Stalinist methods of putting down entire ethnic groups were different than the National Socialist methods. They were slower and more insidious. But then the Bolsheviks thought in the long term, as if they had all the time in the world to purge the unwanted elements from their Socialist Paradise...
Their methods would have led into the destruction of their enemy populations as surely as those of the National Socialists under Hitler, just a little more slowly and in a less showy manner.
And to say that you can just refer to "what Communists always do" and then apply that to a Europe dominated by Stalin and his Bolsheviks? Please. The Communists never had such power anywhere as Stalin would have had if his Red Army really took Europe in the 1940s. And those Communists that ever were in power outside the USSR never had such a leader as Stalin. So there really is no comparison. In reality, it would have been a lot more worse than you imagine if the Germans lost the war, for everyone that had fought against the Bolshevik regime.
OOC: Imagine my character as someone who had several relatives fight against the USSR during the war, and one who has been since an early age told about Stalinist atrocities against Finns and Karelians in Soviet Karelia, as well as someone whose Finnish schooling has been all about a nationalist view about WWII as Finland's "Second War of Liberty" against "Bolshevik-Russian oppression"...
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