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"Im sowjetisch-finnischen Winterkrieg 1939-1940 verlor Finnland einen Teil seines Territoriums. Im sogenannten 'Fortsetzungskrieg' kämpfte Finnland ab dem 22. Juni 1941 als Verbündeter Deutschlands und wirkte an der Belagerung Leningrads mit. Dieser Beteiligung wurde nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg kaum Beachtung geschenkt. Zunächst waren die eigenen Opfer und die Aufarbeitung des Winterkriegs wichtiger. Ab den 1960er Jahren rückte die Blockade in den Blickpunkt. Nur wenige finnische und internationale Historiker weisen Finnland eine Mitschuld am Völkermord in Leningrad zu." (Autorenreferat)

In the Soviet-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940, the Finns lost a part of their territory. In the "Continuation War", starting on 22 June 1941, Finland fought as a German ally and participated in the siege of Leningrad. After the war, hardly any attention was paid to this fact. Finnish sacrifices and an assessment of the Winter War were more important at first. Starting in the 1960s, the blockade began to attract attention. Only a few Finnish and foreign historians assign Finland complicity in the genocide in Leningrad. Adapted from the source document.

Examines the process by which Soviet power created distinct national identities for the purpose of dividing & ruling non-Russian populations. Cultural autonomy was regarded as a threat to the Marxist vision of a worldwide proletarian state without borders, in which all workers aspired to the same ideals. Stalin, recognizing this problem, introduced the policy of korenizatsiya (indigenization), in which every nationality had its own national communist cadres. This policy, in turn, required industrialization of non-Russian territories, education in the national language, & a dismantling of the Russian national heritage. Stalin's indigenization policy was later condemned as "bourgeois nationalism," & the effort to create a new international culture continued long after WWII. Eventually, the nationality problems surfaced & the Soviet Union collapsed. Although the Bolsheviks tried to eliminate nationalism, in the long run their policy created new nations. J. R. Callahan