The Russian Empire vs. the Soviet Union - a geographic/territorial comparison

[Slimebeast]

VGPolyglot said:

Slimebeast said:

Here you go. In contrast to the pics above where Soviets have snatched some border areas of Finland in 1940, when the Finns started their counter-offensive into Soviet Union in 1941, with the backing of the German Operation Barbarossa, the dream was to conquer and establish Greater Finland:

But it really depended on the success of the German Operation Barbarossa of course.

So, I'm confused. Is that what you want, then? A "Greater Finland"?

It's unrealistic now. But if Germany had had bigger success in the Eastern Front, it could have become a reality.

IMO the outcome of the WW2 brought us a far too strong Soviet Union. A better outcome would have been a limited German victory over the Soviets, but with Soviet Union still keeping its independence in the eastern areas of the union and preserving its indistrial production in Ural, and Finland doing its part to weaken the Soviet super power by conquering vital areas in the West including Leningrad and at the same time establishing itself as a significant regional power.

This would have been much better for the post-WW2 harmony and avoided a cold-war between USA and Soviet Union.