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Most history textbooks barely mention Finland at all. They will often not even tell you they were Axis-aligned. You have to read historians writing specifically about this topic. No lazy bones.

Most of history textbooks barely mention WWII by the same notion. I won't argue I might know too little about the history of Finland. Although seeing how overwhelmingly current day Finns seem to oppose Russia and often mention the Winter War. It does seem that USSR was the worse of two evils there.

Like I said, this does not excuse allying with Nazis.

That's the point. They had a choise. Either side with the Allies and hence USSR (which fucked them up) or ally with Germany. It was an obvious only choise for them.

This was not tribal

The point is that tribal "us vs them" is just common. Same goes with countries. It depends if the group has a common identity.

Why do you even want to defend an empire?

What on earth are you talking about?

False understanding of your stance on my part. Sorry for that. I thought you're defending the current day Russian state.

Well I guess if he trusts them, he will welcome in open arms once the sanctions are lifted. Or if they get a non russian state domain to operate from.

Have you ever wondered if a russian can get a non .ru domain, and still collaborate? .ru and .su tlds are directly controlled by the Russian state

Open source IP laws operate under the jurisdiction of the citizen's country. What kind of principles do you think open source represents? Because if it's about free movement of information and global collaboration, I'm pretty sure that pirates are the group that better represents those values

I'm surprised how many people treat GPL to ignore borders. The IP law still operates only by the rules your country decides.

I can understand the desire for information to be free, but unless Open source movement becomes it's own country the discussion should end there.

Aren't the removed commiters with direct access to the kernel? It's not like it's some rando that makes pull requests.

I guess it's difficult to otherwise explain the position you have? It's not like people face criminal charges in Russia just for speaking against it. It's easy to see how the state would want to introduce backdoors to most western systems.

It's extremely sad that a lot of good Russians get swooped in this. But even abroad their lives are in danger to fight the state.

Why? There aren't any sanctions for them in Finland?

I'm pretty sure not just the US wants Russia sanctioned to the oblivion. All of the Europe that borders Russia wants that. Now why would it be like that?

For USSR being the victor in WW2. Why these Finnish "russian death camps" not in most of history textbooks?

Also it's not unreasonable to hate the aggressor. So even if they were building death camps to get revenge on Russkies. It's not like tribal collective punishment isn't engrained in our blood.

Why do you even want to defend an empire?