Originally posted by Boroda
I spent 5 days in a village on lake Seliger (400km North from Moscow) last week. Between Volokolamsk and Rzhev the road is simply amazing. 20cm holes every 1.5 meters. It's frightening to drive there in the daylight. At night it's almost OK at 120-140 km/h
You spent? No! We spent! You sleeped all of the time like a bear.
From Moscow to Volokolamsk I drived at 150-160 km/h. The only limitation was tears limit. Not more 150. Then, before Rzhev - yes. Holes about 30-40 cm deep and 30-50 cm large. Very good to learn making "snake" on 110-120 km/h ;-)
Now I would like to return to topic.
Last year, our TV cooperating with Finnish TV showed a film about our veterans. The showed recon group worked on finnish territory after the war. There was one moment, the penetrated a village, where was a nazi's base. So. One of the veterans asked: How can we go there? (Into that village) We penetrated it at all and maybe they (finnish) thinks that we are crimes or something like that.... (This was about our veterans in ex-pribaltic countryes). After that, finnish goverment gived them special visas. For free moving in the country. Per life. For enemy.
Veterans were in that village. And they meeted kids they didn't kill that night. And that kids of that time don't think that we were enemy. They think that it was a very big mistake.
Finland is the only country wich wasn't accused in Nurnberg. But it's not a reason to say that Finns are good and Russians are bad. And not to tell that Russians are good and Finnish are bad.
But. There are some facts, wich were ignored by Soviet Union after the war. For example: finnish concenration camps in Karelia, finnish plants on wich the first part of german U-boats were built before the war and many other. Finnish goverment already agreed, that participation in WWII on axis side was an error. And as I understand, all of these questions wasn't asked from 1945 till novadays.
The questions about some Karelian territory became shortly after ex-baltic republics went out from Union. The questions about territory, homes and etc. The usual answer is: If you want to revise these questions, we need to revise our post-war agreements. After that these questions disappears.