Recent content by DrakonFin

Why would Red Finland remain independent when they have the chance to join the great, harmonious family of Soviet peoples, like the rest of the Baltic states did in 1940 IOTL? Much of the USSR's ostensible "attachment" for independent Finland comes from post facto rationalizations for why the...

There would be pretty much necessarily a Finnish resistance movement against the occupiers, based on both military and Civil Guard structures going underground. There is a lot of forests and wilderness in Finland to hide in. And there would be a major exodus of Finns out of the country, mainly...

I realized that right after I answered, so I amended my post.

Well, what do you think? They said "no" to relatively small border changes in November. They would not have agreed to what would have amounted to Soviet occupation in March 1940, they would have rather kept fighting. The war would have likely ended in a Soviet occupation and annexation of...

WWI was pretty popular in all European combatant countries at first, and nationalist feelings running high. Several years and countless deaths later, people's views changed rather steeply. Sweden suffered from food shortages IOTL as it was, and things would be even worse ITTL. By 1917 or so, how...

The Swedish left was very much against the war at the time. What would be ironic would be the CP very nearly (and very narrowly) winning the general war with the help of Swedish support, until heavy losses on the Finnish front, food shortages, and other issues lead to the Swedish government...

IMHO, it is not very likely for the Red Army to put up a significantly worse effort in the Winter War than IOTL, the OTL result was very good and lucky for the Finns as it was. Just prior to the Winter War, many people in important positions believed that the Finnish military could not prevail...

Sorry, I had the wrong year there. Bases in the Baltic states were already occupied by the Soviet military since October 1939, based on the "mutual assistance treaties" Moscow forced on the Baltic states in the fall of 1939. The Soviets for example used airfields in Estonia to bomb Finnish...

One important thing to remember is that there already were Soviet troops in the Baltics since late 1939, in bases Moscow forced the Baltics to hand over at the same time they were bullying Finland, too, prior to the Winter War. So, these Red Army bases would necessarily slow down the German...

Add to that the fact that the Finnish Air Force has been the most Western/US-oriented of our military branches since before the end of the Cold War. You could conceivably see the army or the navy get more than OTL Russian equipment in the 1990s, to help Moscow pay off their Soviet-era debts to...

What kind of equipment would that be, and when would it have been provided to Finland?

You are writing a very good timeline here, but it sort of puts me off that you seem to be letting your personal negative attitudes against countries show in the writing. Earlier I have noticed this in terms of Finland's WWII actions, and now you appear to be moralizing about Sweden's neutrality...

It depends. If Germany demands Finland's participation in the occupation of Leningrad, then Finnish resources would not be freed up, rather to the contrary. And even if Finnish troops are freed up, there are only very limited ways they would be realistically used offensively. An attack towards...

If the Finnish Air Force had Mk I. Spitfires in signicant numbers, you could also see a Frankenstein version of them in the Continuation War: up-engined with Soviet war booty engines like the "Mörkö-Morane" was IOTL, or maybe German-built engines.

How do the Western Allies have a naval presence on the Baltic Sea, let alone a supremacy? They had no such thing IOTL, and here as well the Danish straits would be heavily mined by 1945. It would be very dangerous and potentially costly to send a Western Allied naval expedition to the northern...