[ptaipale]

That's complete rubbish.

There were German-minded Finns, also in government (eg interior minister 1941-1943 Horelli) but president from 1940, Ryti, was an Anglophile, and Mannerheim was cosmopolitan, a veteran officer of the Tsar's army, and had long considered St. Petersburg his home city. He had a hard time not showing how he disliked Hitler. Diplomacy with co-belligerents - and opponents - is then another matter.

And the swastika was, of course, the Finnish Air Force logo already in 1918 when Hitler was still in trenches on the Western front and no one knew anything of Nazis.

[Karlsonn]

I am not offended. You seem to like history so I am going to leave a few sources on Finland:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_and_Mannerheim_recordin... Hitler and Mannerheim were very close.

[2] The Finns even had their own SS group: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Finland#...

[3] The Finns operated concentration camps both before WW2 and during: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Karelian_concentration_ca...

[ptaipale]

"Very close" is still rubbish. As that article of the recording says, "Mannerheim did not wish to greet Hitler at his headquarters, as it would have appeared like a state visit." But they of course did have a discussion about the war with a common enemy.

I won't run after the otehr moving goalposts.