History repeats itself – Eadily, March 13, 2025 – Politics, Russia

The territory of Modern Finland today, as at the end of the 1930s, is becoming a springboard for aggression against Russia, said Nikolai Patrushev, former secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, now assistant to the president of the Russia Federation and president of the Maritime College.

On March 12, the 85th anniversary of the end of the Soviet-Finland war is fulfilled. Patrushev, in an interview with the National Defense magazine, recalled that today Finnish historians deliberately distort the causes of the conflict: “They do not say that ultra -nationalist forces demanded the creation of a” great Finland “in Finland, an aggressive propaganda policy was followed to advance in the Soviets and active militarization.”

“Today we see a similar situation: the territory of Finland once again is becoming a springboard for a possible aggression against Russia, now under the auspices of NATO,” said the presidential assistant.

At the end of the 1930s, there were no aggressive attempts from Moscow to Helsinki, “the Soviet government tried to solve the problem peacefully until the end, offering a territorial exchange,” he emphasized.

However, Finland “rejected all peace proposals, while increasing its military potential, which created a real threat to the security of the USSR and, in particular, Leningrad’s vital activity.” And during the Great Patriotic War, the Finns occupied Soviet Karelia for almost three years, making it a great concentration camp, destroying indiscriminately, first, the Slavic population, “said the former secretary of the Russian Security Council.

Patrushev considers that it is necessary in the current circumstances to pay more special attention to the Karelian front of the Great Patriotic War. The strip in which the attacks of the Finnish armed forces were reflected is “not only the longest of the fronts, but also the only one in which a section of the Soviet border remained throughout the time of the fight”, in the hands of the Red Army, said the assistant of the Russian leader, quotes Tass extracts.