[infowarrior]

And still pissed at the Finns for siding with Nazi Germany during WWII :-(

The reality there is that they didn't have a whole lot of choice in that, considering that Stalin had *already* invaded Finland. To their credit, the Finns totally rejected the Nazis' 'Final Solution' on Finnish soil, and the Hitler regime never pressed the issue with them (note that no Finns, of any description, at any government level were even accused of war crimes, let alone tried for them.) They also get credit from me for being the *only* nation in WW2 who paid their financial assessment in full. Thus, while 'officially', Finland was named as an Axis nation, their conduct in both the war, and after, mark them as a special case...

the infowarrior

[Fiji Hill]

Actually, following the war, several Finnish leaders were tried in what was essentially a kangaroo court set up at the behest of the Soviets and sentenced to prison terms. These included the president Risto Ryti and Väinö Tanner, the Socialist leader who would go on to write The Winter War: Finland against Russia 1939–1940 (Palo Alto, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1957). However, they were all released by 1950.