Why did Lenin give Finland independence without a fight? Was he afraid of the yellow warrior?
>>3178570
The Bolsheviks were a bit preoccupied with fighting literally everyone else.
>>3178570
He had to take care of the White Army and the Basmachis. He didn't have the resources to take Finland.
>>3178652
>>3178658
This, and they thought they could just reconquer it later
that strategy worked in Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltics, Central Asia, and even Poland (to an extent, it became a satellite state; after they failed in the Polish-Soviet War)
but when the Soviets tried to take back Finland in the Winter War, the yellow warrior managed to fight them off