Comment on Finland prepares to leave Ottawa Treaty banning anti-personnel landmines
Salmarez@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Hey, Finns got experience dealing with (stepping in) land mines in the only war they won - the Lapland War! Have not heard of it? Of course not, they fought it against the Nazis (because the Soviet Union made them)!
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Does the Winter War not count as a Finnish victory?
huf@hexbear.net 2 months ago
they lost that one. how would it count as a victory?
Salmarez@hexbear.net 2 months ago
No? They lost territory and their second biggest city at the time and the Mannerheim line was disassembled. Yeah, the Soviet Union did not take over the whole country, but that was not their goal, securing the area around Leningrad was.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Looked it up, apparently I was missinformed about the outcome of that war.