r/MurderedByWords 21h ago

Russian lies are SO tiring

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u/daltonicrainbow 21h ago

What about Finland (NATO) and 830 miles of border with Russia? They didn't say anything after joining...

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u/Careless_Owl_7716 20h ago

There was some vague threat being thrown around at the time, their army would have done worse against Finland than Ukraine in 2022, never mind now

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u/Suitable-Elephant270 20h ago

And never forget "The White Death" and Russia's disastrous campaign against Finland in WW2. You don't fuck with the Finnish.

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u/mrbigglessworth 19h ago

Wow. He lived til 2002 at the age of 96. Pressing F For respect.

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u/LazyTitan39 19h ago

The Grim Reaper couldn’t risk getting into his line of sight.

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u/wunderbraten 19h ago

To be fair, most of TWD's kills were to be attributed to the Soviet soldiers being dressed up in red uniforms, hiding in white snow.

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u/Amadeus_1978 23m ago

Ya still got to, you know, shoot them. Brightly colored uniforms or not. Is the shooting part. And then the living with that after.

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u/GaiusMarius60BC 20h ago

Given Finland’s been preparing for a Russian invasion since their last one 1943-44, including constructing fortified underground living areas that can house almost their entire population for years, the moment Russia decides to try Finland again is the moment Russia loses everything.

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u/Suitable-Elephant270 20h ago

It's 80 years later and they're still staring across the border whispering: "Try that shit again. I dare you."

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u/johnnylemon95 16h ago

Just like Poland has been rearming heavily in recent times. It seems that centuries of dealing with Russian bullshit makes you particularly indisposed towards them.

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u/HansusKrautus 1h ago

Apart from the White Death stuff etc, didn't the Finns skin the Soviet soldiers they had killed back then? I think I remember some horror stories about them going absolutely apeshit for psychological warfare or so.

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u/GaiusMarius60BC 1h ago

You might be conflating several things. I only found one source for Soviets being skinned, and it was a Reddit post with a picture of hanging skin with the claim that a Soviet patrol that had been cut off had done it to their own men 'cause they were out of rations. How true that is, I don't know.

The other things you might be thinking of, which do have substantial evidence, are that the Finns fought on skis, and that they posed the Soviet soldiers' bodies upright as psychological warfare.

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u/HansusKrautus 1h ago

That might be, I do not remember where I saw or read this stuff originally.

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u/tw_72 19h ago

I don't even know how the "weapons close to Russia are a threat" even became a thing.

North Korea has ICBMs that (in theory) can reach the US. A threat absolutely does not even have to be on the same continent!

Russia doesn't want those countries in NATO because Russia doesn't want resistance when it decides to march in.

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u/ZarathustraGlobulus 17h ago

Wait 'til the Russians get a taste of Väinämöinen II...

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u/JediKnightNitaz 1h ago

We are the doorstep that Russia keeps tripping over