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    Shadow Senior Member Kagemusha's Avatar
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    Default Re: For PanzerJaeger, comparing the armies of WW2

    Quote Originally Posted by KrooK
    Kagemusha- I don't deny bravery of Finnish army. I just tell that conditions we so different that uncomparable. Actually I read about war 1944 and I know that Russian won there practically only due to massive art support.
    BTW did Russians give back Porkkala Penisula? From polish experience I know that its a bit hard to pull them back from places they once enter :)

    Sweedish - if Poland lost into a month, Sweden would lost into 2 days :).
    You are really deply resistant on argumentation. Maybe you would like to say something about swedish army? Maybe you tell us why Finland is not Swedish anymore :).
    I just wanted to point out that WWII for Finnish army was lot more then Winter War 1939-40. I dont have anything bad to say about Polish army during WWII. I dont have a doubt in my mind that any country participating in WWII could have defeated the combined assault of Germany and Soviet Union in 1939. Polish army did what it could in impossible situation.
    About Porkkala, it was leased for Soviet Union in the Moscow peace treaty of 1944 and was returned to Finland in 1956.
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    Default Re: For PanzerJaeger, comparing the armies of WW2

    Sweedish - if Poland lost into a month, Sweden would lost into 2 days :).
    You are really deply resistant on argumentation. Maybe you would like to say something about swedish army? Maybe you tell us why Finland is not Swedish anymore :).
    Another gross exagerration. Yay.

    The Swedish Army? What would you like me to say? It was very small during WW2, because Sweden had no real need for a large standing army.

    Why isn't Finland Swedish anymore? Well, thats because we lost it during the Finnish War due to the Treaty of Fredrikshamn to the Russian Empire. I don't see how this relates to the current argument, other than that its an attempt to make Sweden look bad and push your views using exaggerated statements.

    I'm glad Sweden didn't get involved in WW2. We didn't need to. There was no threat to us. We were also outmatched. I suspect that if we were invaded, we would put up a Finnish style resistance. The grounds we would've had to use to DOW the Axis would be faultier than the ones used to invade Iraq.

    Basically, what I'm trying to say is I'm acknowledging my countries times of loss and defeat. The Great Northern War was not fought between dirty Russian commies and brave saintlike Swedes. I can see that, I can see that my country would have been no match in a pitched war with the Powers during WW2.

    I can admit that, now lets see you do it.
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    Default Re: For PanzerJaeger, comparing the armies of WW2

    Quote Originally Posted by SwedishFish
    I'm glad Sweden didn't get involved in WW2. We didn't need to. There was no threat to us. We were also outmatched. I suspect that if we were invaded, we would put up a Finnish style resistance. The grounds we would've had to use to DOW the Axis would be faultier than the ones used to invade Iraq.
    Very good point. It would have been smart if Yugoslavia followed that logic back then. Hitler basically asked for our neutrality and free passage to Greece. But, even though the goverment agreed, there were those nasty demonstrations and a coup because the population rejected even a hint of cooperation with the Nazis. And even after we were occupied, we had to be one of the few countries that put up active resistance - attacking German soldiers, which costed or hundreds of thousands of civilian lives in retribution instead of just limiting ourselves to providing info to allies, occasional sabotage here and there and rescuing an occassional pilot.

    WW2 was no place for the little guys, and any smaller country that could've stayed out of it should've stayed out it...
    Last edited by Sarmatian; 05-19-2008 at 23:17.

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