{"id":3312,"date":"2024-11-08T12:36:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2024-11-08T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:36:23","slug":"review-how-finland-survived-stalin-from-winter-war-to-cold-war-by-kimmo-rentola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-how-finland-survived-stalin-from-winter-war-to-cold-war-by-kimmo-rentola\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: How Finland Survived Stalin &#8211; From Winter War to Cold War, by Kimmo Rentola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I once asked a young Finnish historian which side Finland was on during the Second World War.  His answer consisted of two words: &#8220;It&#8217;s complicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is indeed.  This book tries to make sense of all the twists and turns of the years between the outbreak of the Second World War and Stalin&#8217;s death fourteen years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading it now, not long after neutral Finland decided to join NATO, I more clearly understand what a momentous moment that was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The simple narrative that I knew about the war &#8212; brave, plucky Finns standing up to the Russian bear &#8212; is only partly true.  Finland&#8217;s relationship with Nazi Germany is one of the more morally complex issues this book touches upon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended for anyone who, like me, knows very little about this important historical episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once asked a young Finnish historian which side Finland was on during the Second World War. His answer consisted of two words: &#8220;It&#8217;s complicated.&#8221; It is indeed. This book tries to make sense of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3314,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/3314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}