>>514120092
Okay, I hear people constantly say Russia was going to annex Finland and thatβs why they wanted the isthmus, but thereβs a huge gaping flaw in this line of logic; the continuation war. Finland invaded Russia in 1941, sided with the axis, and got their shit pushed in by 1944. Russia could have easily turned them into a Soviet puppet like they did to Bulgaria, Romania, and Yugoslavia, yet they didnβt. They could have invoked revanchism and annexed the place entirely like the Baltics, but they didnβt. Finland had no friends in 1944 and the allies wouldnβt have put up much of a fuss of Russia just did them in. The Swedes probably would have bitched but no one gives a shit about Sweden. If the goal was territorial conquest the Finns basically handed their country to the Soviets on a silver platter with their asinine invasion.
No, the simple truth is Russia had no interest in Finland, incorporating them would have been far more trouble than it was worth. It would have required a large scale purge of their government and decades of reeducation to make the place functional, something no one was interested in aside from the most delusional Trotskyites.