Tell me about Finland, Veeky Forums

They're such a.. Unique bunch of people. Almost as if they're aliens to Europe.

Also, any good books on them while we're at it?

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What do you want to know? Most English material on Finland and the Finns is horribly outdated so I'm not going to recommend any books.

>Non-Nato member
>Dat long border with Russia
I would be nervous, desu

We have a decent enough army with the professionals having recent experiences from peacekeeping missions and the conscription method proving to be effective and popular.

As a Finnish person I also find it hard to find anything about us. We're pretty good at drinking, no one lives up north unless you like bugs and dislike people. We have a tendency to kill slavs. Always have from the three digit years to the four digit years. I mean.. Google for it my man.

He really shouldn't. Some of the stuff Wikipedia for example peddles is literally Svekoman propaganda.

I like Finland, the Winter War is a sublime thing.
I'm also a Balticaboo because of the Forest Brothers.

Ah may be true but it's something I suppose. I reckon that we kicked the slavs ass so many times is something to put up there on the "good going" list.

sluts of Sweden for almost 600 years until they gave it up to the Russians after the Finnish wars

also responsible for the retard that came up with the concept of 'Turanism'

Fuggg rodsi :DDDDDD

Kek. Ok.

Yes they sugg benis

Finns have such an irrational hate for Swedes. They cling onto every little historical event like some muslim in the middle east still complaining about the crusades.

Is it simply an inferiority complex?

The norwegians like to make fun of the swedes too. It's fun. Swedes are dumb.

Swedes are pretty good usually, aside from the "Samis? no i swear they migrated here in the 1600's :-DD " but Fennoswede academics are so often Freudenthal tier. They usually often write in English so English researchers use them as sources.

It is almost like neighbouring countries make fun of eachother. I never heard of that before.

it's not like the swedes arent giving them ammunition

It's pretty much banter most of the time, do not take it to heart. I mean hell, my girlfriend is Swedish. Her and her family are pretty neat.. for a bunch of Swedes ;)

How are Swedes dumb?

Finlands sak är vår sak!

>will be bankrupt in 10 years
>bring in tons of foreign breeders who live off the state
>do goofy things
>norway's derpy neighbor

So you know litterly nothing about Sweden? Cool.

Oh okay, I knew about the rapefugees they're letting in abundance but I didn't know about the other things.

Thanks for answering the rest tho.

Hakkapeliitta, someone has to help you lot with your waring back in the days.

>make fun of the swedes
nah, now you are just observing them like a trainwreck

That slogan is from a poster encouraging Swedish volunteers to go help Finland in the winter war man.

>tendency to kill slavs
That reminds me, as an OP request, do you happen to have Winter War memes?

I want to know about medieval Finland, the medieval Finland that wasn't subjugated by the Swedes.

>the medieval Finland that wasn't subjugated by the Swedes.
What does this even mean?

>the medieval Finland that wasn't subjugated by the Swedes.
So, the Mongols then?

When we weren't subjugated by the Swedes.. as far as I know it's pretty much just.. farming.. hunting.. spooking the slavs into inviting vikings as their top lads..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakkapeliitta

Eyo

>The Hakkapeliitta were well-trained Finnish light cavalrymen who excelled in sudden and savage attacks, raiding and reconnaissance.

My nordics.

>1648 best year of my life

And behold. Not only information about us but memes aswell are few to be found.

It's funny the difference between collapse and success is pride. The swedes have no pride and the Norwegians actually like their country. Though I met several swedes when I was in Norway. They were taking my order or making my coffee.

we don't know what we were doing because there are no records

>The swedes have no pride
that's a lie!

Don't forget oil. The norwegians will stop living their socialist dream as soon as their oil goes away. Then they'll be just like Venezuela.

Pre-second crusade? Sure.

>great migrations
The amount of weaponry and other metal based items is increased in graves during this time. Gold is also found. Agriculture became standardized all across Finland at this point, even though agriculture had existed since 5000BC in Finland. Imported gold rings and animal ornaments have been found from this age, indicating a moderately active trade between Finns and other European peoples. Another sign of increased trade is that Sami's and lake finns stopped producing their own iron at this point, relying solely on trading as the quality was presumably better.

>merovingian period
Finnish material culture becomes distinctive, and the amount of physical items and goods increase massively. People started being buried underground, possibly due to early christian influence. Some graves from this era are also richly furnished which indicates that some sort of an "upper class" existed.
>Viking age
Massive surge in trade. City-like settlements start to appear in Finland. An interesting discovery was made in Varikoniemi where what appears to be a defensive moat was discovered. The location is where several important water ways cross, and has numerous "muinaislinna's" (lit. ancient castles. old fortifications). There's around a hundred of these in Finland. They are usually built on a hill and reinforced with stone and wood.

The Viking Period (800-1200) saw a drastic increase in the building of muinaislinna's which indicates that the medieval period was quite violent in Finland as well. A muinaislinna in the Turku region was used by Swedish crusaders as a base and several arrow heads have been discovered from the area. Some researchers claim that Muinaislinna's are a sign of societal organization.

As no written records from Finland exist, most stuff is based on archaeology. But here is some interesting stuff based on non-finnic writing: (cont)

300 - According to the Yngling saga, Agne attacks Finland.
600 - Finnish mercenaries served in the Scandinavian kingdoms
800 - Finns attack Sweden according to Norna-Gests þáttr
1042 - the King of Novgorod attacks Finland
1050 - Gesta Hammaburgenis eccelasiae pontificum implies an Swedish military expedition to the "land of the women" which is considered to mean Finland.
1123 - Novgorod attacks again
1142 - Finns attack novgorod
1143 - Karelians attack other finns
1149 - Finns attack other finns
1155 - Possibly the first crusade to Finland
1227 - Novgorod attacks
1228 - Finns engage in a naval battle in Ladoga
1237 - Tavastia rebels against Christianization
1240 - Finns, Norvegians and Swedes attack Novgorod
1249-1250 - Western Finland incorporated to the Kingdom of Sweden.

This is not strictly writing, but something I found interesting: Archaeological finds suggest that Finnish mercenaries were active in continental Europe during the great migrations.

>t.triggered sven

I've got more stuff about prehistoric Finland and Finns before the second crusade if anyone is interest. Just ask.

I'd love to hear some tbf. Rabble on my man.

No fan of Turanism myself tbf.

this is me asking.

finland doesnt exist. its a coverup for japanese whaling.

think about it. nokia is finlands largest export, sounds prtty japanese doesnt it.

finland - fin land. the japs are laughing at u

>muh finnish soldier meme

Go back to drawing spurdos Pekka.

why?

>"Soldier meme" kek
>tells me to go back to memes?
>what?

I'm interested, do share your secret knowledge, please

You clearly never heard about the Winter War bro.

This was always a stupid meme and reddit as fuck (and it originated there)

Baltic Sea doesn't even have any whales ffs

Why are finns overrepresented so much on the internet? I'm dutch and we have the same thing.

>Moroccans and Turks don't like immigration
GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY THEN

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FUCKING HYPOCRITES

Finnish people have nothing better to do or anything to do besides drink, browse the internet and watch tv.

Get out /pol/

Rape babies of Sweden and Russia

They live on butthurt and hate

They like to sit in saunas

And thats pretty much it.

What's wrong with turanism mate?

There were also kylfings in the Byzantine Empire who might have been finnics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylfings

Swedes have never had such sublime art

Anyone happen to know any books of the Finnish civil war or anything leading up towards their independence?
Can barely find any on the subject say from a 211 dollar book, and a few out of print books about their air force.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL783EBA42427323C9
Also here is a playlist of a documentary on the War, witch includes interviews with veterans of the conflict.
The video's titled "Civil war" have English subtitles..

>leading up towards their independence?
no. finland had been sovereign state for months and soviet government had already recognized it. that's why it's called civil war, not independence war.

Yeah if I was Russian, I'd be worried.

All of the important parts of the country are protected by massive fuck-off huge swamps to the East

Finland always, always, was the fighting ground between Sweden and Russia. Russians pillaged and ravaged the lands for decades on ends over the centuries taking who knows how many slaves to be sold in Black or Caspian Sea (yes the shits took and sold whites). Hell, the reason Swedes finally lost Finland was because they only showed up with Swedish forces when Russia had already destroyed the Finnish garrisons all the way to Åland.

The Moors and Ottomans sold plenty of whites too. Some historians estimate millions of them.

What about the Karelians? Is it true that the Russians are destroying them culturally?

no. soviets did and all but wiped them out but russian and karelian government have since done lots of work to restore their culture and language.

They're not so nervous after what happened the last time Russia invaded them. And I doubt Russia is keen to invade them again after that.

>after what happened the last time Russia invaded them
you mean losing most of karelia and a third of their industry?
i would be

After WW2 most western karelians moved to finland when given the choice of either living in soviet union or finland. Eastern Karelia had been persecuted in the 1930s alread due to fears of them having more loyalty to finland than soviets. My understanding is that after ww2 most karelian minorities were forced to move to other regions in soviet union and not allowed to move back until Stalin was dead and they started to loosen the whole destroy all karelian culture thing.

Yeah but they were muslims, not christians. Barbary slavers raided all the way to Iceland.

Glad I'm not Russian then.