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IT WAS BANNED IN FINLAND BECAUSE......

posted 16 years ago by ib011f9545i
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Someone asks why it is banned in Finland.
Well I think I know why,from 1945-1989 (End Of Cold War,collapse of the USSR)Finland was bound by peace treaties signed at the end of World War 11 which because Finland had fought against the USSR were very harsh on Finland.

Finland had to be a neutral country,it could not join an alliance and it had to even buy some Soviet military equipment,the communist party of Finland had great influence on Finnish politics no matter how few people voted for it.

People who escaped from the USSR into Finland were returned to the Soviets by Finland.
Comments on the USSR in Finnish media was restricted.
So it makes sense that this anti Soviet film would be banned in Finland in the 1970s.

The process of Finland being leaned on by the USSR was called FINLANDISATION.

[–] Pharaoh-in-de-Nile 12 years ago

And you know what, Finland deserved it! It had to get allong with "the evil commines"? So what. The Finnish government killed, tortured and imprisoned many of its people just because they were workers and thus must have had "communist" leanings and then allied with Nazi Germany (and had been on good terms with Fascist lead countries like Italy, Spain, Portugal and, ironically, Poland before the Nazi invasion, for years) thus expanding the Eastern Front and allowing the Nazis a new route into Russia (where they tortured, starved and executed killed millions for being "untermensch"). Finland is one of my favourite countries but, like Japan, it had a dubious past.

The West's liberal attitude towards Finland's Fascist and Nazi supporting past just shows how the Western (alledged) democracies think Socialism is a bigger evil than Fascism and Nazism... but then again Racism, Nationalism and Eugenics are regularly coming into fashion in the Captialist world (and are popular again).

"The game's afoot!"

[–] ib011f9545i 8 years ago

PHAROAH, just saw your comment.

People, and nations, act for their own benefit.

Finland had been part of the Russian empire,independent Finland was a problem for the USSR because it meant that LENINGRAD (ST PETERSBURG) had little between it and the international frontier.

The beacon of freedom that was Stalin's USSR signed the Nazi Soviet pact with Hitler's Germany.

The USSR also invaded the Baltic states,Eastern Poland and Finland and supplied Nazi Germany with oil and wheat to allow the invasion of western Europe and bombing of Britain.

Finland eventually lost the war with the USSR,and lost territory in the peace treaty, so Finland allied with Germany to get its territory back.

I understand why the Finns allied with the Nazis,and why they turned in the Nazis in 1945

I am not Finnish,I am British,my parents were bombed by German planes powered with Soviet oil.

[–] simplemines 8 years ago

I wonder how Finland 'deserved it.' Finland was invaded by the Soviet Union in November, 1939, months AFTER the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with their ally, Nazi Germany.