• raubarno@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago
    1. Finns are arch enemies of communists. Show a finnish guy a hammer and sickle, and he’ll … you.
    • teemuki@sopuli.xyz
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      2 years ago

      I’m sorry but that’s just nonsense. Finland had one of the strongest communist movements in Western Europe during the cold war. Large swaths of Finns happily voted for communists in elections for decades.

    • teemuki@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 years ago

      I might add that Linus’ father Nils Torvalds was a card carrying member of the Finnish Communist Party in the 1970s.