Following the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, Finnish militiamen -- some of them mounted on skis -- fought a heroic and successful "Winter War" to evict the Red Army. Although Finland’s government, in large measure owing to geography, was officially neutral during the Cold War, the Finnish people were unabashedly opposed to totalitarian socialism on the Soviet model. Unfortunately, they proved susceptible to the less feral version pioneered by Sweden.
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