It’s not like the Finnish white regime invented the concept of using liquor bottles as thrown improvised weapons. Both sides of the Spanish civil war a few years prior (including Republic-aligned communists and anarchists) used them in abundance. But because the Finns mass produced them and the Western public (namely Britain) was sympathetic to the Finnish “war against tyranny”, “Molotov cocktails” stuck.
Since then however, Molotov cocktails have become symbolic of under-equipped guerrilla forces and protest movements across the political spectrum, but mainly among left wingers and socialists. Even anticommunists would sooner associate them with anarchists than based Finland.
I guess the poster can replace the Molotov with an AK but that kind of undermines the “call to arms” message of it.
Redditor: I don’t normally admit publicly that I support historical fascist regimes, except for when we’re talking about commies!!!1!
Um, actually, Finland was a beautiful Western democracy beset by evil authoritankies!
Just don’t look up their collaboration in the Axis war effort or the camps they put ethnic minorities, trade unionists and anyone to the left of (and even sometimes inclusive of) milquetoast social democrats in since White victory in the civil war to their humbling in WWII.Yes but have you considered that simo hayha was epic and wholesome and that he has a sabaton song so I can start lyric chains whenever anyone mentions him for any reason at all
They always love talking about Finland and the Winter War.
They just love when anyone is killing Russians, for whatever reason. Remember that shark from few years ago?