Finland, I even went swimming in sz115 earlier today :-)
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RE: Which territory do you live in?
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RE: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
I was thinking, in 1940, The Soviet union and Nazis Germany were technically neutral to each other. It gave the Russian half of Eastern Europe while Germany got the other half and Finland.
Not quite so actually, the pact did NOT give Finland to Germany, it was among those countries that were supposed to fall under Soviet reign. However, the Soviet Union failed to conquer the country (the Winter War was fought between the two parties in late 1939-early 1940) and Finland was forced to cede the eastern parts of the country in the peace settlement. Unlike e.g. Norway, the country wasn’t occupied by Germany. Finland was drawn into an another war against the Soviet Union once Germany launched Barbarossa. The Finns fought alongside Germany hoping to retain the land it had lost in 1940.
IMO this is the reason Finland should(and probably will?) start the game as a pro-axis neutral, since it wasn’t officially allied with Germany in 1940.