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[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Another great one is "larry thorne", aka Lauri Törni, a finnish nazi (buried with the highest honors in USA's Arlington cemetary btw) who fought against communists and lost 3 times (twice against the USSR, then took an L in Vietnam).

This wiki sidebar sure is one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Weird meme since Finland and Finns are very open about who Finland sided with and it's very commonly talked about too. If anything it should rather be that we're too nonchalant about it rather than trying to hide it somehow.