Germans have an historic opportunity to take moral action. They can fight rashism (Russian fascism) and the genocide of the Ukrainian people today in the way their predecessors did not fight Nazism (German fascism) and the genocide of the Jewish people more than 80 years ago.
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Just sayin.
Finland wasn't an Axis power. It was a young democratic state trying to defend itself against a Soviet invasion much like Ukraine is trying to repel Russian attacks today.
Bruised, severed, and anticipating another Russian attack without allied support or any security guarantees.
That's when Finland turned to its historical ally Germany. Not because it supported Nazism.
That the Russians were the good guys and that Germany invaded Poland alone and that the Phoney War never happened and what happened in what Timothy Snyder calls the Bloodlands is irrelevant.
But this is not true.
We survived, and we consider that an achievement.
I'm not sure we would have done without Germany.
Moscow has been the biggest threat to us ever since it was founded.
Unlike Hitler's Germany's, Stalin's crimes against humanity - those committed in peacetime and war - went unpunished.