https://www.ipernity.com/tag/spo/keyword/20297 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/200/37/22/336439.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/tag/spo/keyword/20297 Sat, 23 May 2026 11:55:38 +0000 Sat, 23 May 2026 11:55:38 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/spo/50303448 tag:ipernity.com,2014-08-26,doc-50303448 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:33:09 +0000 2014-08-26T19:33:09+03:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Spo) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/spo">Spo</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/spo/50303448"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/34/48/50303448.8f284506.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="135" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">...<br /> Read an interesting <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/54400" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">book</a> about western propaganda in post-war Finland. After WW2 GB and the US were worried about Finland falling prey to Soviet propaganda, so they started their own here. Their offices in Helsinki flooded us with their books and magazines, radio news, tv-shows and movies and granted generous scholarships in their universities; so successful was their campaign that us Finns still don’t understand why we all absolutely love english language, Reader’s Digest, Donald Duck, John Wayne and indeed anything coming from the west – even that other Donald. (According to a recent study, our interaction with US has never been livelier than during the Trump's first administration.)<br /> <br /> That love applies to Hornet (pictured) as well, our number one war machine against the Evil Empires, Rogue States and whatever Axes of Evil the west has pointed us with its long and wise finger. Surely that eternal love will also apply to the Hornet’s successor F-35, which was officially chosen of five fighter candidates – even though everyone was so sure there really was no other option than the most expensive one, F-35, that our former Chief of Defence went to work for Lockheed Martin, maker of F-35, before the deal was fixed.<br /> <br /> Who ever said love was free?<br /> <br /> I, err… shot her at the Malmi Airshow. Our beloved one is sooo beautiful, capable of doing sooo pretty things, isn’t she?</div> Cultural Import <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/spo">Spo</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/spo/50303448"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/200/34/48/50303448.8f284506.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="135" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">...<br /> Read an interesting <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/54400" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">book</a> about western propaganda in post-war Finland. After WW2 GB and the US were worried about Finland falling prey to Soviet propaganda, so they started their own here. Their offices in Helsinki flooded us with their books and magazines, radio news, tv-shows and movies and granted generous scholarships in their universities; so successful was their campaign that us Finns still don’t understand why we all absolutely love english language, Reader’s Digest, Donald Duck, John Wayne and indeed anything coming from the west – even that other Donald. (According to a recent study, our interaction with US has never been livelier than during the Trump's first administration.)<br /> <br /> That love applies to Hornet (pictured) as well, our number one war machine against the Evil Empires, Rogue States and whatever Axes of Evil the west has pointed us with its long and wise finger. Surely that eternal love will also apply to the Hornet’s successor F-35, which was officially chosen of five fighter candidates – even though everyone was so sure there really was no other option than the most expensive one, F-35, that our former Chief of Defence went to work for Lockheed Martin, maker of F-35, before the deal was fixed.<br /> <br /> Who ever said love was free?<br /> <br /> I, err… shot her at the Malmi Airshow. Our beloved one is sooo beautiful, capable of doing sooo pretty things, isn’t she?</div> Spo