Talk:Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

For the record, I'm playing a little of the speculation game here. In OTL, Mannerheim seems to have been good and quiet, and did not interfere with the democratically elected government, as opposed to Smigly-Rydz, who seems to have been the government.

Mannerheim is described by Stalin in those glowing terms in W&E. We have no other information as to what is happening in Finland. Now HT could have just gotten things wrong here. However, since such rhetoric is quite Stalinist in tone, I'm giving HT the benefit of the doubt and placing the blame on Stalin cynically deciding "it worked with Smigly-Rydz, why not Mannerheim?" TR