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Those figures could be wrong because of propaganda reasons. The Russians weren't that proud they failed in the war they started. Nikita Hrustsov's commented the amount of the Russian Winter War casualties: "I'd say we lost about million lives."

Lauri Törni aka Larry Allan Thorne. Finnish soldier to fight in three armies: Finnish, Waffen SS and US Army. An ardent anticommunist, who fought in Finnish army in the Winter War in 1939-40. During the following short peace Törni volunteered to Finnish battalion of SS-Wiking...

This year the Finns would have won.

It's hard to watch the game with my heart divided. Canadians definitely deserve to be in the gold game being superior to the lucky Swedish team, but I would love to see the Finns beat the Swedes tomorrow, instead of seeing the Finns loosing against the Canadians. Anyway, go Canada, go Finland!

At least in WWII pervitin, a metamphetamine was given to soldiers and officers in the German army, also the Finnish army, who got it from the Germans used it. I've been kind of fascinated by the subject, so if you get more info on Romans please share it here. Metamphetamine was given also to US...

Stumpfegger was Hitler's last doctor, not the one I talked about, who treated him in 1918. Btw, also Dr. Theodor Morell, who treated Hitler longer, gave him interesting drugs.

I think no one can take Disgustipated's comment very seriously.

Group of individuals form a society, which collectively shares common values, standards and practises.

I understand this rant quite well. For example nudity and sex are seen naughty and dirty in public places and/or in TV, but then again almost everyone have sex and are nude every now and then. In addition there are millions of prostitutes and massive porn industry in the western world. If it's...

Well yes, my conx only downloaded few photos when I looked them for the first time, others were boxes with tiny red x in them. The pics I saw were about happy pioneers and such. But, if you connect these photos with the title of the post, you'll get an answer like "no, it wasn't that bad"...

There's a raise of Nationalist sentiment in Russia. Putin is an advocat of Nationalism, although he may speak of healthy patriotism or something of the sort. Patriot aknowledges that his nation did have and still has faults, he may even point them out. There could have been atrocities and...

Which one? Biographies are often biased and idolize their subjects. Marie Antoinette slept around, spend a huge pile of money and lived life in luxury while her subjects were starving.

Nicholas had it coming. edit: and Louis & Marie too, of course

It's true, and many Jews from other countries in German-occupied Europe received asylum in Sweden. But for some Norwegian Jews it wasn't so good.

Weapons, such as Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns were sold to Germany. Sweden traded iron ore to Germany till August 1943 when the transit agreement was negated by the Swedes. And smaller shipments even after that. In addition Sweden continued ball bearings shipments to Germany almost...