I was wondering, if it were possible to add Risto Ryti as one Finnish leader? As it was he, who sacrificed him self for our independence, at the end of continuation war.
His background is in short; When Russians bombed Finland without declaring war in 26.06.1941, bombing 15 cities with strength of about 500 bombers, even when Finland had declared its neutrality in 22.06.1941. Finland had no other choice than allow Germans to interfere and agree their access to Finland territory in exchange of weapons. Risto Ryti took the fall, without agreement from congress, he signed an alliance with Germans. It was merely a strategic decision and only way Finland could survive, because Finns were totally cut of from allies and on top of that, Soviets were one of the allied forces. Finland tried to make an agreement with Sweden, but they chickened and pulled back. So, if it was not for Rytis sacrifice, we would have been part of Soviets ever since.
In sense, Finns were not Nazi spirited at all. There were few though, but it was a significant minority and partly because of the necessity of the situation, as being military contacts at Germany was not friendly, if you were not at all Nazi spirited and acted like arjan. Thats the only minority that I have heard of that was Nazi friendly, or friendly to their ideology. For example Mannerheim did not like Hitler at all and was not so exited when Hitler paid a visit at his birthday by surprise. I saw a video of it and you could tell by Mannerheims face
Anyhoo, theres a little bit of history about why Risto Ryti is one great Finnish person. And some background about how wrong the history is about Finlands war criminal status. There were some lectures at National World War II Museum in New Orleans about "Operation Barbarossa, Finnish-Russian Continuation War and the Karelia Question" in 6th december 2006 that explained about it and about the ongoing Karelia Question.
BTW, If you want to help our work with Karelian Question, please
sign this plea to raise the question and help us to regain control over those long lost territories that Soviets took from us twice, breaking our non aggression agreements in the process. The reason why this did not come up back then, I do not know any better than this; The history is usually written by victors. Here is
some info in english, but I'm not sure where you could find more material about truthfulness of this statement in English. I'm sure however that it can be found at wikipedia or at least at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. There is a hint where to start looking for, at least.
And thats it about politics, for now.
Believe me, I wish I had the time to get back into Civ4 modding (it's way more fun than real life) but things are still just too hectic for me to dive back in right now. I think when and if I get back to it, it will be in a limited capacity such as creating new Civs & Leaderheads - I always enjoyed that part the most. The Modpack was a lot of work and had developed a life of it's own after a while. I'm also waiting to see if there any further BTS patches coming down the pike, as I suspect there will be (I always hated having to update everything for each little patch).
I feel limbless without it!
