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I wouldn't call Finns chilled out.
If you took a random Finn, any single one, and put them in a room with Hitler, Mussolini (or some other fascist, I dunno), and a random Russian, plus a gun with two bullets, they'd double-tap the random Russian and ask for more ammo.
The only people with a more deep hatred and revanchism against Russia is Poland.
Once I was walking alongside an acquaintance and we stopped by a "Free Library", a little one where you can put any book you want inside and take any books you'd like.
And inside was a book for children to learn Russian.
Oh cute, this could be useful but shame it's in such a bad condition...
"Why would you want to know the enemies tounge?"
This fucking shook me. The anti-russian is so strong that even considering learning Russian is frowned upon by some. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. And even then, my best response in the moment after being flabbergasted was to say "And what? You think not knowing German during the Nazi occupation was better than knowing it?"
The brain worms, are that fucking deep.
It drives me nuts. I have a slava-brained coworker whos refers to anything the soviets did as "Russia", despite the fact that i have repeatedly told him that the Soviet Union had many nationalities inside of it, including the brave Ukrainians that he says he supports. He also wholeheartedly believes that Russia will balkanize when the conflict ends, so there's no hope, really.
*Were chilled out till ~80s
There used to be a ton of communist student radicals in the 60s
Boomers are still butthurt about them to this day
I think Estonia might be more anti-Russia than Finland. Not sure about Lithuania and Latvia but they’re up there, too. But hey it’s not a competition 🤠
I'm from St Petersburg Russia and have been to Finland a few times (granted, before 2022), and at least back then this was not my experience. to put it mildly