[ SECRET POST #2580 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2580 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Russia (seems like we're doing countries)

[(Anonymous)]

I suspected something like that. :D

We talk about the war in history classes a lot (mostly on the Soviet-parts because the history books still don't like to talk about our involvement with Nazis). Basically most of Finland's history from the independence until the fall of Soviet Union is about trying to tiptoe around Soviets and then fighting them for a while and more tiptoeing. And most of 1800's history is tiptoeing around Russia, which we were part at the time. And before that it was being grumpy at Swedes.

Re: Russia (seems like we're doing countries)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, many people around me seem to think that the Finns have a sort of a national trauma over the Finnish war and the whole Soviet deal. Because for a long time they were under a threat of invasion, but, unlike the countries such as Estonia and Latvia, they never actually ~got~ invaded. And now it's an unfinished business, a collective nightmare that never came true but is still somewhere out there (like a monster under a bed).

Re: Russia (seems like we're doing countries)

[(Anonymous)]

It was a real fear during the Cold War, yeah, and it can be seen in Finnish politics during the period (we were bending over backwards to please USSR). But it's not very common these days, except maybe among the older folk, mostly people seem to fear that we get swallowed by EU.
If we're talking about national traumas the Civil War was more of a one than Winter/Continuation War. Finns are proud of Winter War, which can get a bit awkward if one mentions that we fought that with the Germans.