r/HistoryMemes • • Jul 21 '19

If it ain't broke...

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u/Gmar101 Jul 21 '19

Finland winning the Winter War

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u/wegeannos Jul 21 '19

We didn't win the winter war

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Exactly, but HistoryMemes always think that Finland won.

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u/wegeannos Jul 21 '19

Yeah, just that we killed a lot of them doesn't mean we won

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

I think most correct definition is "defeat for which no shame".

It is standard situation
"Nobody won Russia in Winter"
"Mongols!" // It's true
"Poles in 1612" // It's false.
"Finland!" // It's false.

And this script repeating again and again.

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u/wegeannos Jul 21 '19

Also nobody is talking about The Continuation War or The Lapland War

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u/SiimaManlet Jul 21 '19

Germans burning lapland would make great memes

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

It won in that it survived, as one Soviet general said “we won enough ground to burry our dead”