Finland considered the occupation of the Islands as one of the most urgent missions.Īfter Sweden and Germany were out of the calculations, the question was who made it first to the Islands: Finland or Soviet Union? This would be settled by which country was the most sure when the new war would begin.įinland was fully - painfully - aware about the nature of the occupation and breaking of the International Treaty. For political reasons Germany left the occupation of the Islands to the Finns. Sweden pulled out 1941 as it saw that Finland was nowĬo-operating with Germany.
The military vacuum created there was emphasized after Soviet Union gained military bases in the Baltic countries thus the demilitarized Islands became nuisance to the defence of Stockholm, so the Swedes along with Finns made precise plans for the defence of the Islands. The sizable Soviet consulate was sent to the Islands to oversee the demilitarization. If you care to challenge his view, please provide some sources (credited, if you dont mind) I for one enjoy learning something new.īecause of the strategical significance of the Aland Islands, both Finland and Sweden had for long negotiated for the common defence of the Islands in the 1930s. The book established him as a world scholar on the subject. This Finnish professor and a WW2 buff wrote a book, The Continuation War: An Investigation of German-Finnish Military Collaboration 1940-1941 (a book which seems you are unfamiliar with) in which he, not I, states that "Finnish militarization of the Islands was a violation which started the war". The common view held in the academic community regarding the increase of hostilities between the two nations comes from not a Russian but a Finn by the name of Mauno Jokipii. Unless, you find a clause in the 1921 League of Nations decree or in the Moscow peace treaty (which Finland signed) stating that Finland had the right to remilitarize the Islands and arrest the Soviet consulate if felt threatened, im afraid your opinion of morality, while noble holds no ground in the international arena of politics and diplomacy. I understand that you are quite passionate about the topic at hand but it seems philosophy does not outrank international law.
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