If Stalin conquered Finland, it's fate would be

If Stalin conquered and occupied all Finland, it would be

  • incorporated into the USSR

    Votes: 36 72.0%
  • made into a separate satellite communist state

    Votes: 14 28.0%

  • Total voters
    50

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1) Incorporation as a Union Republic within the USSR

2) Creation of a satellite Socialist state, formally independent as Outer Mongolia
 
1) Incorporation as a Union Republic within the USSR

2) Creation of a satellite Socialist state, formally independent as Outer Mongolia

Depends on when conquest occurs. if in 1939, then total annexation (state Soviet position). If in 1944-1945, likely satelization in order to avoid drawing Western wrath over total annexation
 
Would it happen on 1939 - 1940 or 1944 - 1945?

If it would happen during Winter War, Finland would become soviet republic.

If it would happen on 1944 - 1945, Finland would become satelite. Stalin didn't anymore feel Finland so important and he knew how strong resistance annexation would cause.
 
What Konrad Sartorius and Lalli said.

Besides the obvious difference between being a Soviet republic or a nominally independent satellite, you would also get differences in the leadership of the nation. Otto Wille Kuusinen, the most powerful Finn in the Kremlin, wouldn’t probably get any position in the government if the Soviets had win in 1944. Even the Soviets would have realized (just like they did IOTL) that Kuusinen had become such a bête noir for Finns during the Winter War that placing him in the position of significance here would only provoke the population.
 
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