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I only now noticed, Leningrad ( St Petersburg ), is only 35 Km (21 Miles) from the Finish border. Yeah, joining NATO is really going to piss them off...

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You must be looking at pre-WW2 borders. Large areas were ceded to USSR in 1940: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Peace_Treaty (and again with some more in 1944: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Armistice)

Yeah, you are correct. I have to dust up my old maps. Still on a straight line is 50 miles or less. This being St Petersburg, I think Russia will really make a serious fuss on even imagining NATO that distance from St Petersburg.

I think Finland is on eggshells here...

> This being St Petersburg, I think Russia will really make a serious fuss on even imagining NATO that distance from St Petersburg.

Isn't Estonia already part of NATO? Granted the Finnish border is a lot longer, but in terms of straight-line distance to St Petersburg it would be nothing new.

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