>>64192775
>we don't see seethe from Russians about how nice Finland is like we do with Poland
Winland has always been TOO EXPENSIVE for the average Soviet-Ruskek.
When the first "tourist trips" from Moscow to Finland started happening in the late 1970s, which BTW was still being reserved for the elite, the Russians couldn't even purchase anything fancier than a box of matches from the local gift shops.
In the 1980s, some Soviet politician visiting Helsinki for the first time literally asked the local hosts that "why are all these cars following us everywhere??", refusing to believe that practically every single civilian owned their own motor vehicle in the country.
THAT is how backwaters Russia has always been. That's also why sans the rich-fags, they still didn't visit Finland during the "time of peace" (which is also why local hotels and skicenters cranked up their prices during the holiday seasons).
Politically, Finland is a sore spot for Stalinists, as culturally Finns aren't slavs, don't use Cyrillic alphabet, and never succumbed to communism. They also need to double down on their mental gymnastics trying to demonize the Finns, as it was the Russian Czar that first gave them the Autonomy in 1800s, then Lenin personally signed their request for independence in 1917.
Shit gets extra whacky when it comes to WW2, as Stalin literally allied himself with Hitler in 1939, meaning any sort of "OMG Nazis!!" excuses they could cook up for starting the Winter War would instantly crumble.
And just like the Ukraine-boogaloo now, Finns stopped and survived the very first "special operation", embarrassing Stalin and his boyscouts for all eternity.
