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

[Slimebeast]

Flilix 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.

Why would Finland want to get a part of Russia that has never been theirs? That's like half of the original Russia.

This way, Finland would have been just as bad as Russia, controlling a huge foreign area just for power, and not caring about its people.

Because at the time, Finnish tribes populated all those areas in the north market yellow on the first map. We had no historical interest in conquering Novgorod or Moscow.