Originally posted by Jari Litmanen:
>Russian Rocket,
>Finland has to take care of your nuclear >reactors to protect Finland cause youb are >so close (Russia)... we help you and pay >you money so that you can rise from your >slump and you even dare to write something >like this... be ashames of yourself and I'm >being serious now.
By the way, "Jari", and since I've become quite sick of your mindless comparisons between the "wealthy" Finland and "poor" Greece or Russia...
what exactly did your country do on the Second World War?
Did it in any way fight the German Nazists?
Was it not the country that chose to go along with totalitarianism, unlike the Great European Nations who made a stand for democracy, and paid a Heavy price for it?
Greeks, Polish, Russians, and so many others... Our nations fought heroically against Nazism, and our fine countries were annexed and ravaged by the Nazis for their democratic struggle. While some other cowards did... what exactly?
And of course, the German conqueror did not rob your country's wealth, like they did to our Free country, which, when the war ended, allowed Finland to have an economic advantage in comparison to the other nations that had made the struggle against Nazism and fascism.
If all other European nations had followed the politics of your country, Hitler would have been made the Dictator of Europe, and the first to adopt German as their mother language would be the cowards who didn't dare to raise to the occasion and impugn Nazism.
So, don't start comparisons against Greece, pal, your people should be grateful to our countries and people who fought and died for the good cause, unlike yourselves.
The price for our struggle against Germans was the death of hundreds of thousands of men and women that we lost to the Nazist conqueror, and the full ravaging of our economy by the Nazist occupation, unlike some other countries who chose opportunism over ideals....
And still, we managed to recover and become one of the purveyors of the European Union only some decades after the end of the war!
And don't even get me started on Finnish policy with regard to the Soviet Union.
Whenever someone proposes recessions with regard to our neighbour's expansionism and threat of violence, the Greek people always ask for caution --- the political term we use in Greece for submissive policy is that we don't need to become "Finlandized", if you know what I mean. Ask any Greek!
So don't you go around making comparisons between our country and Finland, pal.
We may be less wealthy than Finland, but at least our political past is not a long historical tradition of yielding to tyranny.
[This message has been edited by ARN (edited 11-23-2000).]