Stumbled across this book yesterday during my theory reading sessions and this was such an eye-opening read for someone who has been brought up in the anti-Soviet sentiment and telling of history provided by the bourgeoisie.
According to this, Finland was almost completely in the hands of foreign capital in the 1920s. Mainly the British. I had no idea of the role the Tories played here during these years. None of the things mentioned in this book are ever mentioned in Finland.
Turns out the lumber, milk, ship building and mining industries that the local ruling class likes to boast about were erected here for the European imperialists. We were a colony.
The aftermath of the civil war looks like shock therapy, the playbook looks like what we would now call neoliberalism. The country is a vassal state of western imperialism, the tool of it was called The League of Nations and now it's called nato. Reading this I could not help drawing parallels to Ukraine today.
The Soviet Union was the best thing that happened to this country and the only time in recent history the path of the country was for its people. The only decades when people who actually live here owned even some of the country themselves. The fact that this is fully demonized today and the finlandization bs has become common sense is a tragic result of a century long campaing of anti-communism, waged by the ruling classes. There is nothing more unserious than a Finnish capitalist who sells their own country, imagining that makes the country somehow part of "the West". We never were and never will be nothing but a vassal state.
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War and Peace in Finland: A Documented Survey
Stumbled across this book yesterday during my theory reading sessions and this was such an eye-opening read for someone who has been brought up in the anti-Soviet sentiment and telling of history provided by the bourgeoisie.
According to this, Finland was almost completely in the hands of foreign capital in the 1920s. Mainly the British. I had no idea of the role the Tories played here during these years. None of the things mentioned in this book are ever mentioned in Finland.
Turns out the lumber, milk, ship building and mining industries that the local ruling class likes to boast about were erected here for the European imperialists. We were a colony.
The aftermath of the civil war looks like shock therapy, the playbook looks like what we would now call neoliberalism. The country is a vassal state of western imperialism, the tool of it was called The League of Nations and now it's called nato. Reading this I could not help drawing parallels to Ukraine today.
The Soviet Union was the best thing that happened to this country and the only time in recent history the path of the country was for its people. The only decades when people who actually live here owned even some of the country themselves. The fact that this is fully demonized today and the finlandization bs has become common sense is a tragic result of a century long campaing of anti-communism, waged by the ruling classes. There is nothing more unserious than a Finnish capitalist who sells their own country, imagining that makes the country somehow part of "the West". We never were and never will be nothing but a vassal state.