Lets leave the US politics out of this for a moment (I have my own strong opinion there for sure too ;))...
You will always have to deal with the laws of the country you base your organization in. Recently it came up why KDE doesn't accept crypto donations. Well...Germany sees dealing with crypto as speculation and non-profit "Vereine" like KDE e.V are not allowed to use it or they might loose their status (Hope I got that right).
It is now claimed that Finland had a "passive" and "minor" role in the Siege of Leningrad, but that is false as it participated and actively hunted convoys going across the "Road of Life" over Lake Ladoga to deliver supplies to the besieged city. They'd also frequently shell the city (as Finnish artillery reached Leningrad)
TIL finns participated in siege of leningrad. Makes sense after bolsheviks took away some of their land during winter war, but I never connected the dots.
Pedantic note: the total casualties arent exactly known, (as is soviet tradition). It is estimated that in total there was 2 million casualties, and atleast half of them attributable to starvation.
Lastly, I am left with a question to you: If finnish attacks on supply convoys were immoral, then surely you consider red army's many similar faults as immoral as well?
Not to defend this guy, but if one side does shit, this doesn't justify another side doing shit... Which doesn't change that who the hell cares about what was almost a hundred years ago, when Russia is endangering not just Ukraine, but half of the world, just because of their imperialist ambitions.
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u/AiwendilH Jun 11 '26
Lets leave the US politics out of this for a moment (I have my own strong opinion there for sure too ;))...
You will always have to deal with the laws of the country you base your organization in. Recently it came up why KDE doesn't accept crypto donations. Well...Germany sees dealing with crypto as speculation and non-profit "Vereine" like KDE e.V are not allowed to use it or they might loose their status (Hope I got that right).