| Oh, I've replied to a reply to your message.
I think what you've wrote is closer to my own perception than the reply to your message that I have replied to. Context - yes, it helps. Though it is hard (impossible?) to construct an encompassing enough context for complex historical events.
And it is sometimes too easy to use partial contexts to to help people to perceive events in the right way. I did not read your comment as telling that invasion of Finland was right.
I do consider fear and paranoia existing at that time about external powers as justified. On "Appeasement" wikipedia page you can read about perception that "fascism was a useful form of anti-communism" held by many. And as far as I know, Soviet Union was preparing to wage a large war in Europe (just not in 1941). Part about mental gymnastics - well, that was about what I wrote about justifications. I do not consider it right to justify invasions. Especially when I'm talking about justifications used by a country I was born in / lived almost all my life. But I felt a need to say something in defence of an opinion containing more nuance (yours). I consider as bad a lot of things that were happening at that time (at any time in history?). Now that I looking at the chain of the messages - it looks like I've tried to defend (in my own strange way) a comment that was trying to defend another comment =) |