So your opinion of the war is that it's all fine, except for that bit where Russians died? 
Where did I say that?
The Soviet Union staged the Mainila bombing to get casus belli. They had no justifiable reasons to go to war. They behaved just like when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. No justifiable reasons given, just guns blazing.
And to make matters worse, Finland is the one that has to pay war reparations.
Given the near-facistic goverment in Finland at the time.
Near-fascist? A lot of Finns would oppose that I'd imagine.
The early years of Finnish independence
Following the Russian Revolution, on 6 December 1917 Parliament approved the declaration of independence proposed by the Senate, which was headed by P.E. Svinhufvud. The republican constitution that was adopted in the summer of 1919 characterized Finland's parliamentary system as follows: "Sovereign power in Finland belongs to the people, who are represented by Parliament." The electoral period was originally three years.
The 1928 Parliament Act brought the 1906 Parliament Act in line with independent Finland's new circumstances. Constitutional laws pertaining to Parliament remained more or less unchanged up to the mid 1980s.
In the early days of independence, the forms of political decision-making had still to evolve. Bitter memories of the 1918 civil war cast their shadow over the period. Internal problems dating from the period of autonomy, such as the issue of land ownership in rural areas, undeveloped labour legislation and insufficient democracy in local government, were remedied.
The period was marked by great economic changes: fast growth after World War I and then the global depression in the 1930s. Like other parts of Europe, Finland experienced a wave of right-wing radicalism, but it never attracted a large following.
The moderate left quickly began to participate fully in the process of building Finnish society. In 1926 a Social Democratic minority Government was appointed, with Väinö Tanner as Prime Minister. Miina Sillanpää became Finland's first female minister in this Government.
The Agrarian Party and the Social Democratic Party entered their first coalition Government in 1937, under A. K. Cajander. The average life span of Governments before World War II was one year.
History of the Finnish ParliamentAnd according to Putin, the winter war was to "correct mistakes" too. Is there a list somewhere of mistakes that remain to be corrected?
Without the winter war there would not have been the continuation war, with hundreds of thousands of deaths and lots of troops tied up in the north that were needed elsewhere.
"Oh hey, uh, we forgot that to tell you the border shouldn't run through here, so, uh, we're declaring war now."
What a dick move.
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