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If Denmark was a mystery then certainly Norway should have been mentioned as well in this article. Northern Norway was liberated by the Soviets and to my knowle
by socialdemocrat 7y ago
If Denmark was a mystery then certainly Norway should have been mentioned as well in this article. Northern Norway was liberated by the Soviets and to my knowledge no allied forces ever set their foot in Norway at the end of the war.
Thus in principle the Russians could have claimed all of Norway.
They did not which I think is one of the reasons we in Norway retained a pretty good relationship with the Soviet Union through the Cold War sometimes to anger and bitter resentment by our American NATO allies which seemed to prefer to refer to the Soviet Union as the “evil empire”.
- johnchristopher 7y agoInteresting. Off-topic but: How was that norvegian TV show about a Russian led occupation received by Norvegians considering the good relationship ?
- lb1lf 7y agoI cannot vouch for others, but I didn't think much of it; while no-one are seriously expecting a Russian occupation of Norway, we're rather aware that we are a NATO member, the Russians very much not - and that there is bound to be some strain in the relationship, despite it (in particular in the border zone up north) being good on a day-to-day basis. For instance, citizens of both countries living in a defined zone either side of the border can visit under a visa waiver-esque program. IIRC the debate following the TV series was more about how some figured the plot - that the EU wanted access to our natural resources and were willing to use force (by proxy) to get it - seemed plausible if international relations deteriorated sufficiently. Our own little Suez crisis, that.
- johnchristopher 7y agoThank you.
- vl 7y agoWhile plot in the current political climate is obviously a stretch, it’s an allusion to the annexation of Crimea. Overall, given constrains, it’s well executed.
- arethuza 7y agoNATO had pretty extensive plans to protect Norway in the case of a war with the Soviets: http://www.hscentre.org/uncategorized/fire-and-ice-the-defence-of-norway-and-natos-northern-flank/ http://www.hscentre.org/uncategorized/fire-and-ice-the-defen...
- ta0836838 7y agoThe Soviet Union was responsible for the systematic slaughter of tens of millions of its own people and the deliberate exporting of the communist ideology used to justify that slaughter. There is no debate here; it was an evil empire.