>Finland is the only part of the former Russian Empire that

>>1330533
Are you retarded

>>1330533
because Finland has balls

Lenin promised Finland its independance before the revolution started. Of course he did it with the expectation that Finland would turn communist and come back to the communist fold eventually.

>>1330533
You forgot Poland.

>>1330564
>implying Warsaw Pact

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>>1330553
And it almost did. Finland had a civil war, and the Red Fins would have won if Germany had not backed the Whites, wanting Finland to be the Empires newest puppet state, with Kaiser Willhelm's brother on the throne.

>>1330631
The fighting was already over by the time Germans came. The germans were only needed the make sure no further violence was started.