he wants to personally congratulate the commander-in-chief of the finnish army , marshal manarheim, onh birthday. hitler is accompanied on the trip by the head of the wehrmacht high command, general field marshal wilhelm keitel. before the attack of german troops on stalingrad and the caucasus. after the attack on the ussr, he joyfully told the germans that his main dream was the destruction of leningrad. ryti even prepared a speech that was planned to be broadcast on the radio on the day of the fall of the northern capital of russia. they were well aware of hitler's plans to wipe leningrad off the face of the earth. and other leaders of finland. margay knew that germany was planning to destroy leningrad; i myself personally became acquainted with the documents in the archives of the finnish ministry of foreign affairs. and there , the report of the finnish envoy kieväika on june 23 clearly stated that leningrad should. be destroyed, by the way, just like moscow, naturally, it was planned not just to capture, plunder it, and there were corresponding commands that are already prepared c

before the war, manarheim came to gerring in 1934 and '37 .r they hunted and discussed issues. in just 6 years from 1933 to 1939 , 136 finnish military delegations visited hitler’s germany. in august 1937 . submarines, which at that time made up half of the entire german submarine fleet. the head of the intelligence department of the red army, semyon uritsky, reported in a secret report. there are indications that finland will be used as a base for deployment of the german air fleet against. the ussr. at the same time , the idea of ​​creating a greater finland began to be actively promoted in finnish society. the idea of ​​a great finland was not new. kareli, pskov region, estonia and several regions of sweden and norway. after the start of the war, maps appeared showing great finland. the entire russian north, right up to the op river beyond the urals. one of the myths of finnish historiography says that these are the indigenous lands of the fenaugrians, that karella is only a land for the fenaugrians, and the russians there are migrants here