Gaya thinks a lot

My only point in the post you chose to reply to was that Finland did not necessarily intentionally side with Nazi Germany, but got pushed into a war they didn't want because the USSR saw Hitler march into Poland, and the Russians went like "oh dang, we just invading countries now?" and went straight for Finland.

Are you alleging that the Karelian camps are to be viewed through the same lens as the Holocaust? Because that's what it looks like you're doing. Which... okay? Maybe use your words if that's what you're trying to say?

I've studied WW2 and the Holocaust since I was a child. When Sweden tried to fight back against the Holocaust denial movement, they sponsored a book that went into detail on Sweden's culpability during WW2. I read that thing from cover to cover and did my best to internalize its lessons. Here's a free digital copy in English from the publisher if you want to have a look at it as well.

So like... I've done my research. And... no. The Finns didn't sell out Nazi German's enemies to "protect capital". The Soviet Union literally bombed and invaded Finland, using the same playbook that Russia is still using to this day with Ukraine, claiming that they're just taking back what's theirs, no matter how much the people who actually live there say no.

Sweden, in turn, allowed Nazis to cross from Norway to Finland on our railways, because a) Sweden was afraid of having the USSR on our doorstep, and b) the Nazis had already shown that they were more than willing and able to invade Nordic countries. This one, you're free to call as cowardly and/or communism-phobic as you want to, I don't care. Sweden's track record during WW2 is a known and public shame as far as I'm concerned.

But the international consensus is very much on the side of the USSR wanting to take over Finland, Finland refusing, and the USSR in direct response to that refusal running an obvious false flag operation in order to gain casus belli against Finland.

My only point in the post you chose to reply to was that Finland did not necessarily intentionally side with Nazi Germany, but got pushed into a war they didn't want because the USSR saw Hitler march into Poland, and the Russians went like "oh dang, we just invading countries now?" and went straight for Finland.

Are you alleging that the Karelian camps are to be viewed through the same lens as the Holocaust? Because that's what it looks like you're doing. Which... okay? Maybe use your words if that's what you're trying to say?

I've studied WW2 and the Holocaust since I was a child. When Sweden tried to fight back against the Holocaust denial movement, they sponsored a book that went into detail on Sweden's culpability during WW2. I read that thing from cover to cover and did my best to internalize its lessons. Here's a free digital copy in English from the publisher if you want to have a look at it as well.

So like... I've done my research. And... no. The Finns didn't sell out Nazi German's enemies to "protect capital". The Soviet Union literally bombed and invaded Finland, using the same playbook that Russia is still using to this day with Ukraine, claiming that they're just taking back what's theirs, no matter how much the people who actually live there say no.

Sweden, in turn, allowed Nazis to cross from Norway to Finland on our railways, because a) Sweden was afraid of having the USSR on our doorstep, and b) the Nazis had already shown that they were more than willing and able to invade Nordic countries. This one, you're free to call as cowardly and/or communism-phobic as you want to, I don't care. Sweden's track record during WW2 is a known and public shame as far as I'm concerned.

But the international consensus is very much on the side of the USSR wanting to take over Finland, Finland refusing, and the USSR in direct response to that refusal running an obvious false flag operation in order to gain casus belli against Finland.

My only point in the post you chose to reply to was that Finland did not necessarily intentionally side with Nazi Germany, but got pushed into a war they didn't want because the USSR saw Hitler march into Poland, and the Russians went like "oh dang, we just invading countries now?" and went straight for Finland.

Are you alleging that the Karelian camps are to be viewed through the same lens as the Holocaust? Because that's what it looks like you're doing. Which... okay? Maybe use your words if that's what you're trying to say?

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The reconstructed face of the “Cheddar Man” (c. 7,000 BCE) compared to his living descendant, Adrian Targett    

The Cheddar Man is a Mesolithic skeleton that was recovered from England’s Cheddar Gorge in 1903. At around 9,000 years old, the Cheddar Man is the oldest complete skeleton ever discovered in the UK, and has long been hailed as the “first Briton.” DNA analysis on the Cheddar man from 2018 indicated that he was lactose intolerant, had light-colored eyes, dark brown or black hair, and had a dark to black skin tone. Although the discovery of the Cheddar Man’s dark skin tone was surprising for both scientists and the public alike, it corresponds with recent research suggesting that genes linked to lighter skin only began to spread about 8,500 years ago - approximately 32,000 years later than what was previously believed.  

In addition to the development on his skin tone, the Cheddar Man surprised scientists in 1997 when DNA analysis revealed that he had a living descendant -  a retired history teacher named Adrian Targett. Targett and the Cheddar man share the same mtDNA, which is passed down from mother to daughter. In other words, they share a common maternal ancestor. What is even more remarkable is that Targett lives in Cheddar, only a half mile away where his 9,000-year-old ancestor was discovered.

Targett was not invited to the initial reveal of his ancestor’s new facial reconstruction, but he has since seen it and has commented on the family resemblance. “I do feel a bit more multicultural now,” he once joked in an interview “And I can definitely see that there is a family resemblance. That nose is similar to mine. And we have both got those blue eyes.”

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