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🏹 Aallontie

4 months

Launching a blog with a very long piece on paramilitaries and political violence in Finland, covering history from 1890-1944. Rethreading old stuff that I've covered in assorted posts here.

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@armas_aallontie

3 years

"Ancient wolves hunted prey, meanwhile you go to DOG PARK with "owner" and enjoy fetching a ball...YOU ARE GAY"

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@armas_aallontie

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Posting in Gaelic to outmaneuver jannies is a pretty ingenious move ngl

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Ireland was the first member state to trigger an alert under the EU's powerful new legislation on online hate speech in the immediate aftermath of last week’s riots in Dublin, RTÉ News has learned

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@armas_aallontie

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"You're European! You have to base your identity around these haplogroups I found online!" "It's in the name: HUNgary. We descend from Attila and the Turks are our brothers. By the way, I'm also Sumerian."

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@armas_aallontie

4 years

Thinking about a Japanese guy who walked 300 kilometers in Finland to visit the Simo Häyhä museum last summer.

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ARE FINNS MONGOLS? Thread on the history of Finnish Turanism and racial theories in the modern era. 1/24

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You don't see British documentaries with opening monologues like this anymore.

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@armas_aallontie

3 years

Bronze Age Warriors that idolize mercenaries and Jüngerian spiritual experience through warfare: "It's your duty to desert"

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@KhalkeionGenos

3 years

Ukrainian men being forced out of buses and cars at border when they try to leave, then forced to join army by Ukraine foreign regime. I beg frog frends to be careful, evade authorities...desert. This isn't your fight, don't die for the foreigner president or for Baidan family

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devcroix ⚔️ 🏵

@devarbol

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There is a thing that Poland and Russia are hyperpopular among the Internet nationalists for anti-immigration stances while both countries are generally quite immigration positive and are easing the rules generally.

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@armas_aallontie

3 years

“What has Russia done to Finland in the last 30 years?” I will answer this question in earnest now to hopefully get people to understand why a Finnish patriot would oppose Russia today. @LatinxPutler 1/14

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@KhalkeionGenos

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@KarlismeOklm @Vertumne1 guys I wrote an article in good faith trying to give my reasons, but all you have is invective. Please list evidence of things Russia did to the Swedish that are bad, or Finnish, in the last 30 years. Go ahead and do same for France while you're at it

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In the 1870s, a French anthropologist claimed that the Prussian barbarism during the Franco-Prussian War due to Finnic mongol admixture in the old Prussians.

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@armas_aallontie

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Evolution of Finnish cavalry uniforms: Hakkapeliitta, 30 Years' War Carolean, Great Northern War Cavalry detachment of the Finnish Jäger Battalion, WW1 Finnish White Army, 1918 Finnish Army, 1920s

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@armas_aallontie

4 years

"Abandon your posts! Oh Jupiter we're all going to die! Gigachadicus what are you doing?!" "Shut the fuck up Soyjacicus. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man"

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@armas_aallontie

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tfw russian calls your country cucked

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What if Mannerheim had crossed the Rubicon? Thread on the planned 1919 Finnish right-wing coup and Petrograd offensive. 1/19

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3 years

Med cope

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@VaskiVonQvanten "Transfem Stalin"

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@armas_aallontie

8 months

The white supremacist and finno-ugric orientalist within me are having a debate. This is what being a hapa must feel like.

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@armas_aallontie

5 years

Western history youtubers: some nerd in a bowtie begging the audience to feel sad for victims of totalitarianism. Japanese history youtubers: Touhou characters and a text-to-speech program giving you the rundown on Nazi ideology.

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@armas_aallontie

3 years

I really don't get how you can look at the eastern front and make an analogy where the numerically superior Soviets are the 300 Spartans defending against asian hordes. I mean it was Göring who famously compared the Germans in Stalingrad to spartans.

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5 years

Portrait of a Russian soldier, carved by Finnish artist Mikko Asunta, 1941

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@armas_aallontie

4 years

Also thinking about the time when Japanese Girls und Panzer fans donated 20 000€ to the Finnish tank museum to build a shelter for the last remaining BT-42 assault gun

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@armas_aallontie

4 years

Thinking about a Japanese guy who walked 300 kilometers in Finland to visit the Simo Häyhä museum last summer.

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@armas_aallontie

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"What Prussian military discipline does to a mf" -Cartoon of Finnish Jaegers in Lockstedt, drawn by Gruppenführer Malmberg.

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@armas_aallontie

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I still remember how in a Finnish elementary school we donated our old toys and clothes to a Christian charity that helped poor families in Republic of Karelia, lot of missionary and development aid went to these people in the 00s.

Anton Gerashchenko

@Gerashchenko_en

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Former Wagner PMC member Vladislav Zamkov returned to the town of Pitkyaranta, Republic of Karelia, Russia, and showed the state of the town. According to Zamkov, he killed more than 200 people in the war, and his apartment was taken away from him for debt. Now he, his wife and

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@armas_aallontie

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I find it funny how during WW2 when Finns discussed if they should accept Soviet peace terms or side with Germany, one of the arguments *in favor* of joining the Soviet sphere of influence was that Russians were less intelligent and less civilized than Germans.

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@armas_aallontie

3 years

Finnish infographic from WW2: "The East was restrained with a SWORD before and so it must STILL be restrained!" "This sword is a timeline of our history. The blood represents our years of war against Russia while the white areas are peaceful times"

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@armas_aallontie

3 years

Just found out about finno-ugric nationalists on russian social media

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@armas_aallontie

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IT is becoming more progressive by adopting more inclusive language by getting rid of terms like 'master' and 'slave' but how is it okay for the move cursor to be Fascist symbol in 2023? Why is HUNGARISM being promoted by every operating system?

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@armas_aallontie

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"Liberals and immigrants soon mauled by wolves. Helsinki to be flooded under a deluge of wild beasts. Ruralites cheering from their comfypilled homes"

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30 kilometres from Helsinki.

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@armas_aallontie

5 years

Thread: Heinrich Himmler's obsession with Finland

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@armas_aallontie

4 years

Been reading about the Great Northern War and its funny to think that the Swedish Army once used to be the most brutal fighting force in Europe.

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@armas_aallontie

3 years

NIGGERS: When the USSR fell, Russia sent thousands of Somalis (that had gotten there as a product of co-operation with the Somalian communist government) through its borders to Finland. The Finlandized government could have deported them but didn’t. 7

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@armas_aallontie

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Ukraine. Black Soil, ideal for farming. Called the breadbasket of Europe. Susceptible to famine? Are you kidding me?

Communist Party USA

@communistsusa

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This combined with the region’s susceptibility to famine resulted in a situation wherein the government procured less food than it had in years prior. This created an environment wherein hunger and related disease existed, particularly in Ukraine and Kazakstan. (5/7)

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3 years

Map autism is lindy. Russian map from the 1905 revolutionary period, imagining the breakup of the Empire.

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@armas_aallontie

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Aryanists when they realize gypsies are Indo-european vs. Finno-ugricists when they discover an ancestral connection to some insignificant Siberian tribe

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@armas_aallontie

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Thread on “The Long Wrath” - the bloody guerrilla war on Finland’s eastern frontier during the Russo-Swedish War of 1570–1595. 1/21

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@armas_aallontie

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"You can't just pass your own fanfiction as our National Epic! You're ruining our folklore!" "...Then Väinämöinen meets baby Jesus..."

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@armas_aallontie

2 years

In this thread I will be looking at “Paths of the Finnish Kin” published in 1935 by the Union of Veterans of the Kinship Wars. The book is an ethnographic study on the origins and history of the Finno-Ugric peoples from a nationalist perspective.

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@armas_aallontie

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Finnish 16th century aristocrats actually lived in Functionalist mansions that could have been designed by Alvar Aalto

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@armas_aallontie

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Colorized picture of Peter Kemp, a British volunteer in the Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War

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Thread on Hilja Riipinen – the Most Radical Female Politician in Finland 1/17

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@armas_aallontie

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"Finnish tar on the slave ships! Finns must atone for the sin of colonialism!" "Finnish colonialism didn't happen but it should have"

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@Die_Steiner

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What could have been...

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@armas_aallontie

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I have been reading the recently published memoirs of @fri_skytt about his service in Ukraine in the (in)famous Azov Battalion. Book review thread with translated excerpts (see alt text).

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@armas_aallontie

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It literally says there that the title of the Grand Duke existed since the 16th century. Also ignores the role of Finnish nobles like Armfelt in the creation of the autonomous Grand Duchy.

Ezra 红外战线🇨🇳🇺🇸

@Ezra_EX

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Lol Finland was even more of a Russian creation than Ukraine was.

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@armas_aallontie

3 years

The two types of Finns in the replies

kaylon guitar

@kaylon92

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wow #Finland trending with #neekeri how racist are those people……..

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"This is a temple of intelligence, and I am its high priest. You are profaning its sacred domain." "¡Viva la Muerte!" "Long live death? You realize how paradoxical that is? That's like saying 'death to life!'?" "¡Muera la inteligencia! ¡Viva la Muerte!"

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Mannerheim was a man of the ancien regime. His aristocratic aura permeated the otherwise national and republican character of the Finnish state and his cult of personality during WW2 was like that of a monarch.

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@armas_aallontie

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"That's why it must be torn down"

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Every promising Finnish action movie idea turns into unoriginal B-tier hollywood slop.

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This movie is basically John Wick but he kills Nazis

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@armas_aallontie

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Discovered an interesting piece of Finnish Patriotic Pulp Fiction: “Greater Fatherland” written by pseudonymous “Captain Steel”. Published in 1918, his military sci-fi story presents an imaginative vision about the future of Kingdom of Finland. (Spoilers)

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Winter War scenery by Erkki Tanttu. These were illustrations for 'Kiirastuli', a collection of war-time elegies by poet Yrjö Jylhä.

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@armas_aallontie

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Pentti Linkola, from a 2016 Interview @DeepEcoMonkey

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@armas_aallontie

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I like how in interwar Finland every town had a local White Guard that had a headquarters in usually a wooden house built in Neo-classical style with Doric columns. Perfect aesthetic in my opinion, emphasizing Finland’s role as the rustic outpost of Western Civilization.

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@armas_aallontie

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@AmrenPeter ppl forget that even the astronaut meme was originally antisemitic

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@armas_aallontie

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MIETI IIVANA MIETI!

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@armas_aallontie

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Call Finns slavs one more time

THE AMAZING WORLD'S GREATEST DAD

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@0x49fa98 ONLY THE NOBLE FINNISH SLAV CARRIES THE TORCH OF EDGY INTERNET FUN

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The only selling point that you have for 🇷🇺 is that they are less gay and not multikulti in the same way the west is. But there are no guarantees that 🇷🇺 would want conservative nationalists to run Finland as they have had better success with the pozzed center-left in the past.

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@armas_aallontie

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Japanese presentation sword given to “Shogun” Mannerheim presumably by members of the Turanian Society of Japan or the Black Dragon Society in 1936.

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@armas_aallontie

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ANTI-FINNISH MESSAGING: In recent years there has been a campaign in Russia to highlight Finnish war crimes during WW2 and a narrative of an anti-Russian genocide has been crafted through movies, museums and revisionist research. 9

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@armas_aallontie

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Finnish cavalry advancing in East Karelia during the Continuation War, 1941.

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@armas_aallontie

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Putin let the same thing happen during the 2015 migrant wave. While “only” 2000 came through (compared to 20k that came through Sweden), this could be seen as the same hybrid war tactic that Lukashenka used against Belarus and Poland in 2021. 8

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@armas_aallontie

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@Sandskaro I made this three years ago

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@armas_aallontie

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INB4 “WHAT ABOUT USA/EU? Aren’t they doing the same things to Finland too?” Yes, they are also working to destroy the remains of our sovereignty but that doesn’t make Russia my ally if they are doing the same thing. 12

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@armas_aallontie

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In his territorial ambitions, John III essentially envisioned the 20th century Finnish nationalist dream, wanting to expand the Realm's borders to the arctic sea, bringing all Finnic peoples under one flag. He originally had a royal title "King of the Finns and Karelians"

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@armas_aallontie

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King John III of Sweden is an interesting figure for Finns as he was the Grand Duke of Finland prior to ascending the throne. He brought the renaissance to the North, ruled his duchy like his own kingdom with its own foreign policy and even spoke some Finnish.

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@armas_aallontie

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RUSSIAN LANDOWNERSHIP IN FINLAND: many Russian oligarchs have bought land near military installations, electric grids and other strategic places. There have been criminal investigations and this has raised suspicion in the Finnish public. 11

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@armas_aallontie

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To me, the anti-Russian sentiment that has risen has been a positive change. It is a “Drain the swamp” moment where Finlandization is being questioned. It has led to discourse about lustration, autarchy, national defense at the expense of leftist pacifism and gayness. 13

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@armas_aallontie

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Thread on Finno-Japanese co-operation during the Russo-Japanese War. 1/13

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@armas_aallontie

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Thread on Elias Simojoki (1899-1940) and clerical Fascism in Finland. 0/28

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"That wasn't wholesome 100" "..."

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Up at night thinking about the Finnish Timberjack Harvester Mech

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They also continued to advocate for pacifist policies. President Tarja Halonen, a rumored ex-Stasi agent, worked for Russia’s benefit by removing land mines from the Finnish border and tried to convince the Baltic States not to join NATO. 5

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@armas_aallontie

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Based. People should stop treating Linkola as an intellectual and start appreciating him as the meme polemicist he was.

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@armas_aallontie

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Just reached 1000 followers. One step closer to final Finno-Ugric victory.

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H.Pain Coalcraft

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"Defense of the Sampo has been a recurring motif in Finnish political satire"

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@MarkBrahmin

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Political twitter really is a civil war between spiteful mutants.

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@armas_aallontie

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The “Black Regiment” was a Karelian Dragoon Regiment of the Swedish Army which earned a legendary status for their last stand at the Battle of Lund in 1676. The Regiment got its name from its black flag with the Savonian Coat of Arms.

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@armas_aallontie

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Its interesting what historical analogies were used before Hitler and WW2 to describe political phenomena. In the 20s when some on the Finnish far-right wished for a populist dictator to take power from the corrupt parliament, they wished for a new Gustav III.

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@armas_aallontie

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LOBBYING: Many Finnish politicians are still in Russia’s pocket through business deals and are rewarded by the Russian state for their actions. These are not fringe figures but mainstream politicians and ex-presidents in parties like SDP and the Centre Party. 4

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@armas_aallontie

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Today is the anniversary of the most important political murder in Finland, the Assassination of General Governor Nikolai Bobrikov. 1/12

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I wish we actually had a political elite that wanted the return of Karelia

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Weird to think that Finnish population didn't exceed Estonia's until the 17th-18th century.

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When Mannerheim was ten years old during the Russo-Turkish War, he always wanted to play a Turkish general in childrens war games. When he heard that the Turks had surrendered in Plevna, he cried.

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Halonen and some other Finlandized leftists have been some of the most vocal advocates for gay rights, immigration and all sorts of anti-Finnish politics even if the fake, europhile, right wing also deserves blame for these things. 6

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Russia spreads historical narratives that delegitimize Finnish statehood in the same manner they have done with Ukraine which makes us suspicious of its intentions. Russian media has also demonized Finland in other ways such as by accusing it of kidnapping Russian children. 9

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The reason why he got interested in häyhä was that he read Golgo 13 Manga, which had a character based on Häyhä.

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@armas_aallontie

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FINLANDIZATION: To borrow a phrase, Finlandization was the wokeness of its time. It was communist self-flagellation that steered our politicians, academia, media etc., & suppressed the real right wing during the cold war, and continues to influence Finnish politics to this day.

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@armas_aallontie

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Whether the Winter War was a defeat depends entirely on what you believe Stalin's goals were. At the start of the war, he was trying to install a communist puppet government in Finland but at the end he accepted a negotiated treaty with the Finnish government.

Russians With Attitude

@RWApodcast

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the winter war was an absolute catastrophe bc the soviets were malicious idiots but finland lost like 20% of its military & a bunch of territory, how is that a defeat

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@usutav He conveniently skipped the part in Putnam's studies that showed diversity being a major factor in the fracturing of society.

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It is a little known fact that Tolkien based the battle of Helm's Deep on the Battle of Viipuri in 1495, where German mercenaries and Finnish peasants endured a two month long siege and repelled repeated attempts by the Russians to take the city walls.

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@armas_aallontie

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On this day in 1555, the battle of Joutselkä was fought between the Finnish troops of the Kingdom of Sweden and Muscovite Russian forces. In this battle, the Finns achieved a victory over a ten times larger Russian force thanks to innovative tactics like the use of ski troops.

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