On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 12:59:27 +1000, SolomonW <SolomonW@citi.com> wrote:

I have read somewhere that those that decided to go war were right about
2/3 of the time from their perspective, e.g. Stalin was right to take on > Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in 1940 but Finland was a mistake.

Thoughts on this?

The primary reason Stalin thought the Baltic states were ripe for the
picking is that it took place during the German invasion of France
when both Germany, France and Britain were fully engaged in the west.

Unlike Finland, any resistance was token. Finland was not attacked
until after the Polish campaign when they threw the primary attacking
units of the Red Army against the Finns expected a quick Finnish
collapse.....

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