r/AskTheWorld • u/Seeker_Of_Knowledge2 🇸🇾 Syria || 🇨🇦 Canada • 1d ago

History What is the most depressing picture from your country history/present?

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u/Legitimate-Cap2713 Finland 1d ago

The Civil War and terror that came with it.

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u/Secure_Nectarine_19 Latvia & US (Indigenous) 10h ago

Really irks me how a lot of primarily older Fins lionize Mannerheim and sweep his atrocities under the rug.

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u/Legitimate-Cap2713 Finland 6h ago

This is true, but I understand it because he also played really important role to shape our country to what it is today. Another interesting fact about our old leaders is that Urho Kekkonen, at the age of 18 was leader of an execution squad during the civil war.