Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This might be a dumb question: what do you mean? I know very little about Finland, so I’m just genuinely curious. Are the Finns in particular well-known for being anti-communist or is it more like a geopolitical thing since they share a border with Russia?

    • teemuki@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know where this idea that all Finns are anti-communist comes from. Finland had one of the strongest communist movements in Western Europe during the cold war. At the height of their popularity about one in four Finns voted for communists in elections. Card carrying communists sat as ministers in multiple cabinets, up to the early 1980s. Like many young people of his generation, Linus Torvalds’ father was a member of the Communist Party of Finland in the 1970s. And all this happened after Finland had fought against the Soviet Union in the 2nd world war.

    • FluffyPotato
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      1 year ago

      Saying your a communist in the baltics gets your ass beat here because most people in their 40s and older lost friends or family to the USSR or at minimum know someone who has. Lots of bad associations. Finland has similar history though they managed to fend off occupation. I know Poland has similar sentiments but not sure about all ex-soviet occupied countries.