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Originally Posted by Bruno Lotse
Marshal was fighting Soviets, his troops were killing Soviet solders
and while doing this he proved himself both
the great stateman and the great warrior.
Stalin ordered national morning on the great Finnish Marshal (again former enemy).
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This is really something I don't quite understand. Finns often think that the relationship between the Finns and Soviets was very tense back then and even today WW2 and the hostilities of that time are brought up. To think that Stalin ordered that type of mourning is just odd to me. But on the other hand I don't think Mannerheim hated the Russians, as a young officer he was trained there in the Czars military academy. He also traveled there and in China.