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As I has heavilly downvoted for pointing out back in January of 2022, the history of "Nazism" in eastern Europe is often complicated by the fact that being anti-Bolshevik would make you a nazi by default. The villain's origin story from Goldeneye is an actual historical event and the fascist government in Finland fought on for an additional 3 years after VE day.
Progs being progs want to believe that nazism is uniquely evil and that they are thus uniquly good for taking a stand against it, but it isn't and they are not. It's bullshit all the way down.
So... the Finns called WWII the Continuation War, e.g. a continuation of the 1939-1940 Winter War. They signed an armistice with the USSR in September 1944. Which is a a solid 8 months before VE Day.
I'm less up on Finnish internal politics of the period, but I think a lot of them would take issue with calling the Finnish wartime government "fascist."
Going by the Wikipedia article it would seem you are correct, for some reason I was under the impression that the Russo-Finish war didn't end until 1947.
Edit to add: In fact, I'm actually having a serious Mandela Effect moment as I would've sworn on my life that I've seen references to "the Russo-Finish War 1939 - 47" in multiple history books, Wikipedia articles etc...
The only thing I can think of that you might have transposed the Ukrainian post-war guerilla efforts against the Soviets onto Finland?
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It's not just the end date, Finland didn't have a fascist government at any point of the war. There was one minor minister from a far-right party for a part of the Continuation War, 1941-1943.
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All this could be true. I wish no ill on the guy. I don't think he should be thrown in jail to die alone by some zealous Nazi hunter.
But it is rather rich that the prog monoparty that has been calling me a Nazi the last 8 years for essential having unchanged "liberal" beliefs from the 90's went on to then invite and applaud a literal card carrying Nazi in a center of power. It's an act so brazen it just gives the game away. Yeah, it is bullshit all the way down.
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He wasn't a Nazi "by default", he fought in the Waffen-SS. May well have been the right thing, fighting for one devil against another, but he was definitely fighting for the Nazis.
Of course, you had to be a German to join the Wehrmacht whereas the Waffen SS had a policy of accepting recruits from wherever.
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Is this some sort of an irony joke I'm not getting?
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What?
True, but at least this incident, and similar ones before, provides clear proof of this. To the extent this is even discussed online, I see progs come up with various bullshit excuses, misdirections etc., progs who otherwise identify the evil Nazi menace in anything and everything.
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