Message from @Kombat-Unit

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2017-01-31 04:54:04 UTC  

also please tell me the story of this Etsa person

2017-01-31 04:54:07 UTC  

immediately fascinated

2017-01-31 04:54:29 UTC  

I love the fucking semi-Mexican bandito look with all the ammo bandoliers it's totally bizarre to me rofl

2017-01-31 04:55:09 UTC  

Verna Erikson smuggled weapons and ammunition to the white guard pocket in Helsinki that was controlled by the Red Guard at the time.

2017-01-31 04:55:46 UTC  

hahahahha awesome

2017-01-31 04:59:41 UTC  

What's your excuse?

2017-01-31 05:00:02 UTC  

None :c

2017-01-31 05:00:33 UTC  

Got Cross of Freedom at age 13 or 14, he's cooler than I am and his balls hadn't even dropped.

2017-01-31 05:01:30 UTC  

During the battle of the very city I live in.

2017-01-31 05:02:53 UTC  

Too bad he got shot along with Olof Palme's much cooler uncle and namesake who supported eugenics and was a huge anticommunist.

2017-01-31 05:03:23 UTC  

:c RIP

2017-01-31 05:03:39 UTC  

ah yeah Palme right

2017-01-31 05:03:52 UTC  

the guy they think may have been assassinated by the Civil Cooperation Bureau

2017-01-31 05:03:57 UTC  

for his opposition to apartheid

2017-01-31 05:04:14 UTC  

Little known fact, his uncle took part in Finnish civil war along with Martin Ekström who would find the Swedish nazi party.

2017-01-31 05:05:23 UTC  

White terror best terror.

2017-01-31 05:05:33 UTC  

brutal

2017-01-31 05:08:00 UTC  

Ironically, the guy who would find the Lapua movement was imprisoned in Shpalernaja prison that got emptied when the Bolsheviks took power.

2017-01-31 05:09:43 UTC  

It would be like the ADL broke you out of a maximum security prison.

2017-01-31 05:10:02 UTC  

that's absolutely beautiful

2017-01-31 05:13:27 UTC  

Alright, this is going to be too ironic to even comprehend.

2017-01-31 05:16:33 UTC  

SUSPENSE

2017-01-31 05:17:25 UTC  

Aarne Sihvo was likewise imprisoned by Russians for helping the independence movement. Reds take power, he gets kicked out. Civil war starts in Finland, he becomes a commander and helps beat the reds who either surrender or run to russia, among them red guard commander Antikainen. As a gigantic fuck you to the Bolsheviks, he leads an expedition to Russia in 1919 to grab some RIGHTFUL precious Finnish clay, and fights Antikainen's troops. Again. But this time in Russia.

2017-01-31 05:17:32 UTC  

It goes on.

2017-01-31 05:20:06 UTC  

LOL

2017-01-31 05:20:08 UTC  

Fucking rad

2017-01-31 05:21:00 UTC  

After several years of border wars, we grabbed some clay thanks to Sihvo and buddies, and it pretty much dies down by 1923. In 1933 Antikainen decides to infiltrate Finland to help the underground communist party. He gets caught, and there's political trial with constant threat of death sentence for war crimes during the so called "Kinship Wars", with rumors of cannibalism etc. But, Winter War starts in 1939, doesn't go so swimmingly, and one of the demands of the Soviets is comrade Antikainen is released at once.

2017-01-31 05:23:01 UTC  

He goes to Russia and is immediately made representative of Finno-Karelian SSR in High Soviet Council of Representatives. But he begins to wonder why absolutely no one he knows is alive anymore, and and starts asking questions. He dies less than a year after returning to Soviet Union after NKVD is kicking in his door and he defenestrated himself.

2017-01-31 05:24:03 UTC  

He survived almost a decade of constant threat of execution but dies less than a year after coming home. With friends like Bolsheviks, who needs enemies.

2017-01-31 05:25:28 UTC  

Leftist ideology leads to neurotic intellectualism like that

2017-01-31 05:25:38 UTC  

It's honestly a depressing story you're telling here.

2017-01-31 05:26:15 UTC  

Tragicomedic

2017-01-31 05:26:28 UTC  

One of my favorite things is Ben explaining Orwell's motives for writing 1984, how his experience in Spain inspired him - he was accused of being a Fascist and ostracized for intellectual reasons.

2017-01-31 05:26:45 UTC  

The left ostracizes the minority of smart, objective leftists

2017-01-31 05:27:20 UTC  

A lot of Finnish immigrants in Americans also went to Russia to "build socialism" and only to be executed as class enemies. By 1940 there was only one of the leaders of the Red Guard and original Finnish "red mutiny" alive.

2017-01-31 05:27:20 UTC  

He musta lost a metric fuckton of faith in leftism, considering this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list

2017-01-31 05:27:49 UTC  

Communists in the know consider Orwell a traitor, he's basically a prophet of what's wrong with leftism

2017-01-31 05:27:51 UTC  

*1941 with Antikainen having killed himself.