Teach me about Finland

Teach me about Finland

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SWEDE´D

Vittu saatana perkele.

This is the only Finnish phrase you need. They will understand the rest easily through various gestures.

Here there be Mongols. Perkele.

Basically, west Karelia.

For starters, it's not real

100% Sisu

>Pre-1000´s: Nothing much of interests, just some basic tribal Finno-Ugrics, interaction with vikings, Novgordians...
>Early 1000´s: Sweden starts crusading in Finland and splits it with Novgorod
>1200-1700´s: Finland is pretty much East-Sweden and Finns help out in Swedish wars like the Thirty Years War (See the Finnish cavalry units, the Hakkapeliittas), sees some battle
>1808: Sweden doesn´t want to participate in the trade embargo against Britain proposed by Napoleon and Russia
>Russia invades Finland, and Swedes get BTFO (didn´t have enough Finns conscripted)
>Russia annexes Finland from Sweden and establishes the Grand Duchy of Finland

>Middle to late 1800´s: Finns are pretty autonomous thanks to the Grand Duchy: The Tsar of Russia wants to promote the separation from Sweden so Finns don´t want to join them back
>National romantism happens; Finns write the first Finnish novels, national anthem, poems, books, newspapers, the national epic Kalevala is written...
>1890´s-early 1900´s: The Tsar starts getting worried that Finland is getting a bit too nationalistic so the first censorship campaign happens (known here as the Sortovuodet)
>General Governor Nikolai Bobrikov gets the job to russify Finland and censor nationalist ideas, he is given the powers of a dictator
>Finnish nationalist Eugen Schauman assassinates Bobrikov to stop the oppression
>It slows down the Russification a bit, but more importantly gives other Finns courage to start fighting back (peacefully)
>A petition campaign begins to keep the autonomy and stop the Russification happens
>Half a million Finns (Really big number for a land of a few people and shitty infrastructure) sign the petition and the Tsar accepts to keep the autonomy
>Russia starts another Russification campaign before and during WW1

>1914-1918: Germany is at war with Russia, so young Finnish men volunteer to go for military training in Germany, in preparation of liberating Finland from Russia.

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>Almost 2000 men get trained by Germany, and they are named the Jaegers (Jääkärit)
>The Russian Civil War breaks out
>Finland sees the opportunity to finally become independent and goes for it
>Declaration of independence happens 6.12.1917
>Internal schism happens on what kind of government Finland should have: a republic, monarchy, military junta or socialist
>1918: The Finnish Civil War begins
>Socialist and communist Reds vs. Whites
>The Jääkärit return from Germany to fight for White Finland
>The war lasts about 3 months, and the Whites win
>Red terror and White terror creates a big gap between the peoples that lasts for years
>Republic of Finland is declared

>1920-1939: Numerous Finnish presidents, many try to mend the gap that the civil war created
>Workers and farmers get better rights etc.
>Alcohol Prohibiton happens, fails
>Fascists try a coup, they fail too
>A lot of commies get forcibly sent to the Eastern border to join USSR if they want to by anti-communists (Based muilutus)

>1939: The Winter War
>WW2 has kicked off and Stalin wants to take Finland
>They sent an ultimatum in November to Finland, demanding the area of Karjala (Home to 400k Finns)
>Finland rejects the ultimatum
>The Soviets stage a Finnish attack (They shell their own town and call it Finnish aggression)
>War begins on November 29th
>Russians are idiots: troops from Ukraine and other southern areas are sent to cold, killing snowy forests of Finland
>They wear brown uniforms, making them easy target
>Finns are outnumbered 3:1, without tanks and aircraft...
>Legendary sniper Simo Häyhä slays 505 (some estimates say 700) Russians with his scopeless rifle
>Finns: around 70,000 casualties
>Soviets: around 321,000 casualties

>War ends in March 1940, in Finnish defeat
>Finns finally get overwhelmed by zerging ruskies
>Finland loses Karjala, Salla and Petsamo to the USSR, but the land is "just enough to bury the dead Soviets"
>The Interim Peace begins

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>1940-1941:The Interim Peace
>Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, one of our national heroes (served in WW1, Russo-Japanese War and the Finnish Civil War) gets named as the field marshal
>Finland wants Karjala back
>Armament for another war begins
>They start secret negotiations with Hitler in the coming Operation Barbarossa
>Finland would join the invasion of Russia but not join the Axis
>Summer 1941: The Continuation War
>Finns move quickly into Karjala and the USSR, seizing the important city of Ääninen around autumn 1941
>Expand into a few other places aswell with Germans and start making fortifications

>1942-1944: Germany fucks up with Barbarossa, and the war starts going downhill
>Soviets start a massive push in summer 1944 to break the Finnish line and they succeed
>Finland is forced to a pretty favorable peace treaty (No land lost, no occupation, independence kept once again, and Helsinki is also the only European capital city that does not get occupied during WW2)

>1944-1945: But now, Finns have to throw the Germans out of Finland as part of the treaty
>Both Germs and Finns are pretty bummed about this, since we were brothers-in-arms, but the Lapland War begins
>G*rmans burn Rovaniemi, but get BTFO to Norway
>WW2 finally ends for Finland

>1945-1995: Cold War era
>Finland does not join NATO and keeps very friendly relations with the USSR, friendship treaties are signed
>The God Emperor President Urho Kekkonen does some things
>Cold War stays pretty cool

>1995: Finland joins the EU
>2002: Adopts the Euro
>2010´s: Finland is now (And has been) one of the best places to live in the entire world, people are happy
>Is a welfare state and things are going pretty well and calm
>Good relations with Russia are maintained
>Creates legendary memes such as Spurdo Spärde and Apu Apustaja
>Nokia, Angry Birds...

The future is quite bright, despite the EU being a faggot and the usual migrant crisis and a semi-cucked government.

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Oh, and we are not really Mongols despite all the memes. But we are not Indo-European either: We belong to the caste of Finno-Ugrics with Estonia and Hungary. We do have a lot of asiatic genes though.
Our language is also pretty unique and similar to Estonian.

In a summary we have been a pretty small and unnoticed nation in the grand scene of history, but things like Simo Häyhä and Winter War definitely have left their mark on this world. We are not and will never be like the Western Swedes or the Eastern Russians, we are one of the few remaining Finno-Ugrics. We are the nation of thousands of lakes and the sun that does not set; the land of vast pine forests and flat fields

There is a Finnish saying that goes something like this:
"We Finns are like the Juniper tree: we can bend and bend to the edge of our limits, but we never crack. We just spring back." And that is called SISU.

>Early 1000´s: Sweden starts crusading in Finland and splits it with Novgorod
>Crusades
Pekka pls

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Swedish_Crusade
It probably happened, but was a quite small affair.

Oilniggers

>Helsinki is also the only European capital city that does not get occupied during WW2
Bern? London? Moscow? Madrid? Stockholm? Dublin?
>Finland does not join NATO and keeps very friendly relations with the USSR, friendship treaties are signed
>The God Emperor President Urho Kekkonen does some things
You mean Finland is a de facto puppet of the Soviets as they have an ultimate veto on basically any and all government decisions and can use the YYA-treaty as a pretext to place their own troops inside the country if they wish.
It's not like there was much of a choice, but let's not sugarcoat things.

More like MONGOL'D Swedoids

Finland has no oil

What exactly is wrong with that statement?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Crusades
The Swedes did crusade into Finland. The word does not necessarily mean wars to gain the Holy Land.

Fug, how do they support the welfare state then.

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More like one of the only non-neutral capitals of WW2 that didn't get occupied and the only "Axis" capital that did not get occupied (Or did Tokyo get occupied?)

And I'm pretty syre the YYA treaty specifically states something like "the USSR can't move ANY troops into Finnish soil unless it is requested by Finland, and Finland has to stop any foreign force from entering Finland"
And a puppet government of USSR? Yeah, no. Got pretty close to that though I guess

A diversified economy unlike petrostates

The YYA treaty was a worthless scrap of paper enforced by a war victor. The Note Crisis proves that the Soviets could have done whatever the hell they wanted.
I'll agree that the definition of puppet state doesn't quite fit for most of history of Finnish-Soviet relations, however I'd say the Soviets blatantly interfering in Finnish presidential elections to back their preferred candidate (Kekkonen) was a reminder of the fragility of the situation.
The country was forced to shame and forget its veterans, politically bow to the East and censor anything that might offend its new overlords. It was certainly not a sovereign nation.

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Japan got occupied. Of the fighting countries' capitals in Europe only London, Moscow and Helsinki weren't occupied by opposing forces.

They are gay

>Bern? London? Moscow? Madrid? Stockholm? Dublin?
I think he meant an Axis capital city, it was the only axis capital not to be occupied

>the First Swedish Crusade was a MYTHICAL military expedition
>Academics debate whether this crusade actually took place.
>No archaeological data give any support for it and earliest written sources are from much later date.
>No surviving written source describes Swedish influence in Finland before the end of the 13th Century.

If you're to lazy to even read a Wikipedia article before using it as a source, you have no right to sit and correct people with such confidence you mongoloid.

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Acts like it kicked the USSR's ass but it really became a defacto Warsaw Pact member where you couldn't print anything critical of the USSR.

Swedish Finland was an experiement in proto-colonialism. If Finland had remained under swedish rule, it would've never gained independence and would likely be only as developed as countries like Moldova or Ukraine.

>ridicules his wikipedia claim about a Swedish crusade by countering it with a reading of wikipedia

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You forgot the most important things.

>1995: Finland wins Ice Hockey World Championship
>2006: Finland wins the Eurovision song contest

> Eurovision
I sort of remember that, wasn´t it a death metal band?

Lordi is pop metal.