User:Sailsbystars/Continuation War sourcing

"'By 1943 most Finns considered that they were on the losing side of the war.....'"

"'The Continuation war ended in an armistice in September 1944 followed by the Treaty of Moscow.....Even so, despite the harsh effects of the war, Finland survived as an independent and sovereign state; and Helsinki was one of only three capitals of European states involved in the Second World War which were never occupied by foreign forces (the others being London and Moscow' - p 149" "'The second major theme of Finnish war memory is victory. According to the Finns national narrative, they did not lose the war, although they were on the side of losers and had to cede territory. Rather, the outcome was a successful defense, in that the Finnish troops were able to frustrate the strategic aims of the Red Army to conquer and occupy the territory of Finland.'- p 155"
 * The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration edited by T.G. Ashplant, Graham Dawson, Michael Roper