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Never ask a man his salary
A woman her age
A Finnish person what their grandparents were up to between 1932 and 1946
Constantly squinting at (Finnish guitar YouTuber) Euge Valovirta's tattoos looking for sussy shit, and still suspecting that his first guitar amp was probably bought by his grandparents with Nazi gold 
...I would be extremely happy to be proven wrong.
Really weird how that Finnish uniform looks a lot like a Nazi one
And how the Finnish air force used the swastika well into the 21st century
And how they're sheltering from Russian artillery fire in 1944
Hmm...
[Finnish accent] Silly westerner, don't you know that we only fought the Soviets to establish independence? That's right. Independence from je– the Soviets!
just a couple of smol bean hugo boss enjoyers being unjustly oppressed
I don't know how they got away with it
decades of anti-russian/anti-soviet and pro-german/pro-axis/clean wehrmacht propaganda. It's so bad you can hold up literal members of the SS as "anti-russian freedom fighters" and you'll have an entire room of parliamentarians clapping like trained seals
Playing up the silly little weirdos angle and a lot of Western propaganda