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   XPost: soc.culture.baltics, soc.culture.czecho-slovak, soc.culture.russian   
   From: ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com   
      
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    Anton  wrote:   
      
   > James A. Donald kirjoitti:   
   >   
   > > Eugene Holman:   
   > >> Fear? What fear?   
   >   
   > > Fear that what was done to Estonia would be done to   
   > > Finland.   
   >   
   > Finnish army already gave the Soviets a strong message in the 1939-1944   
   > wars that such an option would be costly for the aggressor.   
      
   The first part of that demonstrated both that Finland, by itself, could   
   inflict large costs on the Soviet Union, and that the Soviet Union, with   
   its vastly greater resources, could defeat Finland. The second part   
   demonstrated that Finland could defeat the Soviets--provided that the   
   Soviets were spending most of their energies fighting the Germans.   
      
   After WWII the Soviets no longer had to deal with an invading army. You   
   can probably offer a better guess than I can as to whether, if another   
   Russo-Finnish war had broken out, the Finns would have been willing to   
   repeat the heroic defense of the first one, or whether they would have   
   accepted the implications of having lost it.   
      
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