nn–nnAll in all, things ended up very well for Finns, since the country avoided actual occupation by anyone, except the loss of Karelian Isthmus to USSR, and destruction of Lapland. Every building in Lapland is burned to ground by German troops as Finnish forces push them to Norway. First this happens with little enthusiasm, then Stalin puts on more pressure and there is some proper war, not just voluntary German retreat. Finland pleads to expel Germans from Lapland. Finland is under influence of Soviet Union but not actually occupied. Temporary peace treaty with Allies and declaration of war against Germany. June-July 1944 there’s a major battle in Karelian Isthmus between Ladoga and Baltic Sea but Russians start to move their attention towards the race to Berlin.nn1944-1945: “Lapland War”: Soviet offensive forces Finns to give in by September 1944. 1941-1944, Lapland (northernmost part of Finland) is under responsibility of German troops who try to get to Murmansk but have little success. Finland doesn’t actually close the Ladoga gap of Leningrad Siege, not does it make a formal alliance with Germany until June 1944, when Russians launch a major offensive. It advances to East Karelia, but stops its attack short of cutting the Murmansk railway and there is not much enthusiasm on either side to do proper war. nn1941-1944: “Continuation War”: Finland wants to take back its own, with interest, from Soviets. The plan works except that when USSR attacks Finland on, Finns resist fiercely, and when towards March 1940 both France and Britain are threatening to fight both Soviets and Germans (yeah, right), Stalin agrees to a temporary peace, taking only some 11 % of the country’s area. They agree to split Poland, Baltic countries and Finland. Nazi Germany and Soviet Union are in pact (often called Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty). Could that be the secret project he’s aiming to launch on January 1, 2014? I can’t wait to find out.ġ32 Years of Global Warming Visualized in 26 Dramatically Animated Secondsĥ3 Years of Nuclear Testing in 14 Minutes: A Time Lapse Film by Japanese Artist Isao HashimotoĪyun Halliday didn’t know she’d be keeping things fresh by failing to listen to a single second of 8th grade Geography. Meanwhile, let us hope that he makes good on his threat to make a universal World War II map animation. His YouTube channel boasts a boggling assortment of map animations. This in addition to an alternate YouTube channel where he remaps history in response to his own “what if” type prompts. Somehow he finds the time to preside over The Blank Atlas, a site whose members contribute unlabeled, non-copyrighted maps available for free public download. And he may well be a brony, as evidenced by the video he was purportedly working on this summer, World War II: As Told by Ponies. I definitely felt like throwing some ticker tape around when blue triumphed, but mostly I was curious about this Emperor Tigerstar, who relied on such disparate sources as Chris Bishop’s Military Atlas of World War II and Wikipedia to create this extraordinary record in Windows Paint.Ĭareful reading of his blog reveals a diehard history buff with a weakness for metal music, wholesome CGI movies, and statistics. Royalty-free music by Kevin MacLeod and audio samples ranging from Hitler and Mussolini’s declarations of war to Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy speech add import. The power-shifting colors (blue for Allies, red for Axis) are mesmerizing, as is a relentless timer ticking off the days between Germany’s invasion of Poland on Septemand VE Day, May 8, 1945.
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