Re: A Moment Of Silence

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:20:19 -0800, C Lund wrote
(in article
<christopher.lund-A3F5B9.08201913112008@adsl-065-015-208-
084.sip.ilm.bellsouth.net>):

In article <0001HW.C54057F20002E3BBF01846D8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sonnova <sonnova@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, you're calling the Finnmark incursion a liberation? Its a liberation in
the same way that the Russians joined the fight against Japan. Just as they
waited until Japan was ready to fold before joining in that fight, they
crossed into Norway above the Arctic circle to Finnmark after the Germans
had
already started to pull out of southern Norway. Some liberation. And the
only
reason that they left instead of pulling Northern Norway behind the Iron
Curtain is because Stalin's advisors convinced him that he would piss-off
the
Western Allies if he tried to pull that. Saying that the Russians
"liberated"
Norway is like me saying that I liberated France because I visited Normandy
once.

Sheesh... First you claim it never happened, and when proven wrong you
make up that shit.

I have to admit, I'd never heard of this operation before. Little wonder.
It's a tiny footnote in WWII history, important only because it was one of
the few placed occupied by the Soviets that they "gave back" after the war.
However, before you get all bloated up like a toad, the occupation of
Finnmark by a few Russians hardly constitutes what you called a Russian
"liberation". They only occupied a tiny part of Northern Norway that was
inhabited by fewer than 50,000 mostly Sami peoples (who, if I'm not mistaken,
being nomads, don't even consider themselves Norwegians because they follow
the reindeer herds across northern Norway, Sweden and Finland without regard
for the political borders of those lands) at the time and did so AFTER the
Germans had retreated leaving scorched-earth in their wake. What your
revisionism calls a liberation, history calls an occupation. To call it
anything else is laughable.

Don't ever claim to know anything about WWII again.

I wonder how many minor WWII skirmishes and temporary occupations that YOU
know nothing about? I don't remember claiming to be an expert on WWII, but
that doesn't mean that I don't know more than the average person about it.

.

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