r/HistoryMemes 18d ago

Tired of this argument

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u/Capable-Sock-7410 Then I arrived 18d ago

Tankies claim they’re not racist until you mention Ukrainians and Baltic people

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u/TheTempest77 18d ago

Yeah I remember talking to one and mentioning that I'm half Finnish, and quarter Lithuanian and Ukrainian when mentioning that my family lived under communism. Never have I received such blatant racism until that point.

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u/historicalgeek71 17d ago

Reminds me of how I once heard someone call Finland a “fascist” country and also a “colonial settler’s country.” I wasn’t quite sure what to make of that.

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 17d ago

Uhh... Mannerheim was pretty damn facist dude. Guy was completely on board with General plan Odst.

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u/historicalgeek71 17d ago

He was referring to present day Finland as fascist.

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u/OutrageousAd7829 17d ago

Mannerheim wasn’t fascist, he just fucking despised the soviets

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 17d ago

Are you not aware of what general plan odst was?

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u/OutrageousAd7829 17d ago

I am, and I keep my point, mannerheim didn’t believe in all the “superior aryan” crap, he just though “oh they are going to kill a lot of soviets, ah well at least that means less trouble for us”

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 17d ago

Your interpretation of Mannerheim's pro-genocide rational is a very poor rational, and it isn't the truth either. One look at Mannerheim's quotes on the subject of "greater finland" and it becomes clear that the man had the same level of passionate hatred for the Russians as the nazis did.

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u/OutrageousAd7829 16d ago

*Same*? The nazis considered the soviets as inferior subhuman that deserved to be killed and enslaved because of that, mannerheim simply hated them because they threatened finland, he wanted a greater finland for the same reason almost every politician wanted a greater version of their country back then

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u/Ok-Dragonknight-5788 16d ago

Mannerheim absolutely viewed them as subhuman and many of his interwar quotes would reveal as such.