Talk:Ryti-Ribbentrop Agreement

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Wow! Thanks, Johan Magnus! 8-} --Whiskey 22:37, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This is a joint venture. :-) Now I've laid a foundation, and others can carry on with the improvements and corrections. --Johan Magnus 06:27, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Deleted some uncorrect statements in the "controversy" section, among other things it was stated that "a Finnish peculiarity was - and still is - that Social Democratic and Socialist groups dominated the working-class political movements, and Communists always were a fringe phenomenon" This is factually wrong, and the opposite can in some ways be said to be true, it is rather a Finnish pecularity that in the post-war period the Finnish communist party at times polled more votes than the social democratic party, in 1958 even becoming the largest party in Finland with 23%.Finnish parliamentary election, 1958. The strength of the communists during the Cold War in Finland is unique compared with the other Nordic countries where the communist parties indeed were fringe phenomenons in the labour movement, in other Western European democracies it can only be matched by the succeses of the Italian and French communist parties.

These gross inaccuracies lead me to suspect that the whole of the controversy section is a result of original research, hope someone with more knowledge than me about the actual Ryti-Ribbentrop agreement can look into that. Kjetor 10:40, 31 October 2007 (UTC)