About war in practice and about it's such effects

 Finland here in northern Europe fought in World War II against Sovjet Union. Finland is a quite small country so far north that it as a geographical location isn't so central militarily or otherwise. Finland has a traditional culture of common sense like rationality and wisdom of life and with clise conne tions with nature, sparcely inhabited because of the climate but not like having empty space, more like uninteresting climate etc for foreigners. So Finland has not had a written language and school education for so very long. So school books were mostly copied recommended basic education from other bigger countries, and continued along the same lines, thinking that for a small country education ought to create a communication possibility with the rest of the world, based on strenghts well possible for Finns, creating so a place for Finns as individuals, as a place to live in and as a nation in the world. 

So also the Finnish view on war was kind of basic, safeguarding basic lufe in common sense like ways and trying to communicate well enough with the rest of the world. As such war or defending living conditilns isn't necessarily wsr like. Instead it is common sense like estimating the situation and trying to adspt good life to these new circumstancies. 

So it is not like one side against another, it is more like trying to get some idea of the situation while things happen chaotically, or such was my imoression from the pictures of an article about soldiers fleeing from war, in today's news, see https://yle.fi/a/74-20093352 . The men in the pictures appeared old, kind of having estimated the situatiln as a whole differently from the ypunger generatiln. I have heard someone claim that what was left after war were those who had fled or were somehow criminal or wounded or in other jobs like medicare. It sounds bad but as one pays attentiln to what they did, it seems that if someone fled from a war in Asia but considered Finland good, Finnish culture worth following well and defending, they came to Finland and wete classified as Finns, since such ways suited Finland. Likewise there seems to have stayed parties that people without so much experience came yo think of when trying to figure out, who would fix the situatiln, lije Swedes were they more peaceful, would the Lapplandish or eskimos be able to fix the situatiln here if it depended on weather skills of bearing jyst the winter cold? But such groups are adapted to a life elsewhere, so here they are kind of like tokens, placed here by some other place's view, not reacting to the environment, not behaving in common sense like ways with a wide educated picture of the world.