Imperial Japan helped Finland decrypt Soviet military codes in its war on the Soviets

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Hirose sent the important information collected by the Finns to Tokyo and in turn received from the Kwangtung Army information gathered along the Manchurian-Soviet border. Thanks to this cooperation, the decryption of the codes of the Soviet ground force and the border guards progressed satisfactorily, and must have been of some use when the Finnish General Staff planned military operations against the Red Army.

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This was actually discovered by Richard Sorge's intelligence circle during WW2, causing the Soviets to overhaul their entire military encryption system. Funnily enough, the Soviets kept using the old system, for the simple act of tricking the Japanese into thinking they "uncovered" Soviet plans, as Japan would hand the fake intel over to Germany where it wreck havoc and confusion on German planning.
- Richard Sorge, the hero
  
  The one of the many unsung heroes of the USSR.

But the idiots in the Western hemisphere and all over the internet still claim "Finland wasn't a Nazi collaborator" and "only fought them ebil commies in self defense"
- Yet the public declaration of a “separate war” was immediately compromised, notably by Finnish defense propaganda: when Finland entered into Operation Barbarossa, Finland was imagined as fighting to save the New Europe—not exclusively Finland—from the “Asian plague.” Given the paradox of fighting a “separate war” to install the racially privileged New Europe, it is difficult not to see an ideological convergence that goes well beyond a merely pragmatic, military relationship between the “brothers-in-arms.”
  (Source. See also: Finnish–Nazi Relations & the Diplomacy of the Petsamo Question, March–December 1940.)
  
  Thank you

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