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!historychads !anticommunists what's our assessment? Incompetent moron? Bloody tyrant? A product of his time? I already know our resident commies will say he got what he deserved. His wife was extremely r-slurred, ignored all of based granny Victoria's advices and was probably boned by a creepy peasant.
!neolibs was Sergei Witte /our/ guy? Was Stolypin taken from us too soon?
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He was a cute twink for the attempted Russification of Finland, but he didn't deserve to go out like he did.
Mannerheim stayed loyal to him even after his death, keeping his portrait in his living room until his own death. Maybe that was where his allegiances ultimately lied.
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Ofc it was. He was tsarist till end. Thats why he hated germans and soviets his whole life and didnt feel like he fit in finland. Becouse he was russian first and formost.
Nick and Mannerheim probably fricked like homos they were.
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Still, he was able to move on somewhat and served Finland beyond admirably. The White movement lost in Russia but Mannerheim lead it to victory here, securing our independence during its first hurdle.
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Independence was secured becouse communist in russia belived communist doctrine fully still.
Civil war just determined what kinda system country should have. Reds had no chanse to win. At best they could have bogged things down to longer war and irregular war. There was too much support tricking in for whites.
And i dont think he was abel to move on. He was asked to leave russia. Lot of his action can be read as revenge for russia. As for his service. Civil war he was great. WW2? He did really well in winter war but Ryti was genious during continuation war. But Ryti couldn't inspire troops like mannerheim did.
Good general early in war. Good leader of man later in war. Kinda like most generals who made it through ww2.
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I was talking about the civil war. The Reds suffered a brutal defeat, Finland's independence was secured and any fantasies of joining the communist sphere were crushed.
Few Finns can be said to have done as much to serve Finland as Mannerheim, whatever his personal feelings may have been. He was our president, for chrissakes.
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