Talk:Lapland War

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Was it a "real" war with an official declaration of war? Or was it only a series of armed clashes called a war? The second option seems more sensible since the finnish army was supposed to be during a process of severe reduction. Mieciu K 19:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Finnish government declared on 1 March 1945 that state of war had existed since 15 September 1944. - Mikko H. 19:48, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

Is the trivia section really necessary? It doesn't really add anything important to the article. - FireForEffect - 23:46, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Result

The result of Lapland war was a full German retreat, which complied with the stated Finnish objective. However, the war is not considered a victory in Finnish history, because the war ended in a indeterminate way. The German troops left Finland and Germany collapsed as a state. This was, however, more due to the general development of WWII than to the Finnish war effort. Calling this result a Finnish victory may be formally correct, but gives an incorrect picture of the overall situation. Politically, Finland did not reap any positive results from the war. Not all wars have clear-cut victors and losers. In my view, Lapland war is one. --MPorciusCato 15:42, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Still, Finland won all armed conflicts that can be classified as battles. Starting the war was not beneficial for Finland, but since the conditions were what the conditions were it was needed. What if Finland could win German troops at those battles? USSR would move even more troops to Finland? Looking from 1944 starting the war was not beneficial, but what about future relations with USSR? --Pudeo (Talk) 22:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)