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title: 'Suomen sotilaat! (Soldiers of Finland!): Soviet leaflet on a springboard against the USSR and the fate of Denmark and Norway'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-hitler-ponnahduslauta-1941/
description: 'A short Finnish-language Soviet leaflet photographed flat: five lines under the headline ''Soldiers of Finland!'' say Hitler has made Finland a…'
section: Collection
---

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[![Suomen sotilaat! (Soldiers of Finland!): Soviet leaflet on a springboard against the USSR and the fate of Denmark and Norway](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-leaflet-hitler-ponnahduslauta-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/soviet-leaflet-hitler-ponnahduslauta-1941.jpg)

# Suomen sotilaat! (Soldiers of Finland!): Soviet leaflet on a springboard against the USSR and the fate of Denmark and Norway

A short Finnish-language Soviet leaflet photographed flat: five lines under the headline 'Soldiers of Finland!' say Hitler has made Finland a 'springboard' in a war against the Soviet Union and is preparing for it 'the fate of Denmark and Norway', then call the Germans 'fascist robbers'. The tells are an imminent-fate comparison with a single prescribed remedy (turn your weapons on the Germans) and a loaded label in place of argument.

## Text on the object

Original (Finnish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SUOMEN SOTILAAT!

Hitler on muuttanut maanne ponnahtuslaudaksi neuvostovastaisessa sodassa. Hän valmistaa Suomelle Tanskan ja Norjan kohtaloa. Kääntäkää aseenne saksalaisia fascistirosvoja vastaan, taistelkaa vapaan ja riippumattoman Suomen puolesta!
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
SOLDIERS OF FINLAND!

Hitler has turned your country into a springboard in the war against the Soviet Union. He is preparing for Finland the fate of Denmark and Norway. Turn your weapons against the German fascist robbers, fight for a free and independent Finland!
```

Read from a 1280 px copy of a glass-negative photograph; the line breaks of the original are not kept. 'Ponnahtuslaudaksi' is as printed (usual spelling ponnahduslauta).

[← Salvage Scrap to Blast the Jap](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/salvage-scrap-to-blast-the-jap-1941/) [Suomalaiset sotavangit sotilastovereilleen (Finnish prisoners of war to their fellow soldiers): Soviet leaflet with seven named prisoners →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/soviet-leaflet-suomalaiset-sotavangit-1941/)

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