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Since you are a hockey guy, Tampere is a good place to visit. It´s considered to be the home of finnish hockey. The largest arena in the country, 2 high level teams, ice hockey museum/hall of fame. The town itself is an oldtime industrial town with a nice lakeside location and nice restaurants(try the black sausage) and pubs. Tampere also has some intresting museums like the Spy Museum and the Gaming museum, of course there are more traditional ones too. The CanadaxJapan=Finland is kinda on the money :)
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Since nobody else commented so far: Finland in WW2:
Round 1, the Winter War: Soviet Union invaded on November 30, 1939, thought it would be easy and got bitten really hard. Eventually they reorganized and made some progress. The conflict lasted for 105 days and ended with Finland losing around 10% of the land but the soviets had to pay a high price: 130.000-170.000 KIA and 190.000 wounded. The Soviets also lost 521 planes and roughly the same amount of tanks. The battle of Suomussalmi is a military history classic, where 10.000 Finns on skis destroyed two full Soviet divisions. Another remarkable thing: the deadliest sniper in the history, Simo Häyhä, managed to get 505 confirmed kills in just under 100 days.
Round 2, the Continuation War, June 1941- September 1944, Finland fought alongside the Axis powers to regain lost territory. The attack continued all the way to the river Svir. It was a long war where the numbers counted in the end. Even then the Soviets lost at least 200.000 KIA, 60.000 POW and 400.000 wounded. Their material loss was also high: some 2.500 planes and almost as many tanks. In the aftermath, Finland lost roughly 12% of the territory (compared to pre war borders) but remained a sovereign country. Finland also had to drive out the German troops (the Lapland War 1944-1945) as part of the peace deal with the Soviets. Out of all the European participants in WW2, to my knowledge there were only 3 capitals that never were conquered/occupied: London, Moscow and Helsinki.
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@3:08 The airport is not only in the outskirts, but actually in a different city (Vantaa), which is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area, but still very much a different city. I doubt anyone actually goes to the airport to do grocery shopping if they're not passing through the airport. The store is there for passenger convenience.
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12:52 I agree with you, and I'm a Finn.
One thing socially that is way different about Finns and Japanese people is that we don't beat around the bush we are very straight to the point and it's not considered rude if for example we tell a mistake someone did.
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Awesome!
Been to Finland last year, surely my favorite country in the world! The cold weather, beautiful landscapes, nice people, even the food that many people says it's terrible, in fact it's not! Sure it is an expensive country, but it's worth it.
Try to visit Tampere, less than 2h by train from Helsinki. Surely you can go waaay north till Lapland, but it will be a lot colder!
Foods: you must try mämmi now that is Easter time.
If you go to Tampere, definitely try the buffalo wings at Siipiweikot
Greetings from Brazil!
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The statue on Senate Square is the Russian emperor Alexander II. There’s a bit of a story attached to it.
Finland used to be a part of the kingdom of Sweden since the Middle Ages. This changed in 1809 when Russia conquered Finland. The czar at the time, Alexander I, anticipated he’d have to fight Napoleon soon, so he didn’t really have troops to spare to occupy Finland; he needed to pacify it quickly. He made Finland into an autonomous Grand Duchy. The short version is that the he took out the constitution of Sweden that was used in Finland, crossed out “king of Sweden”, wrote in “emperor of Russia” and called it a day. This made Finland special in the Russian empire: there was no serfdom, and the emperor was not an absolute autocrat. The Finns really liked this arrangement, and 1809 is considered the start of Finnish statehood.
The first few decades went by relatively uneventfully. There was a major revolt against Russia in Poland, but Finns stayed loyal to the emperor. The emperor, Alexander II, really appreciated that. As gesture of goodwill, he called the Finnish Diet, which allowed it pass new laws, the first time since Swedish times. Finland got its own currency, post office, army, and the Finnish language became a language of administration alongside Swedish. His support for autonomy is why Alexander II is remembered as the best czar in Finland, and why he got his statue on Senate Square after his death.
But the story doesn’t end there. Emperor Nicholas II decided to centralize the Russian empire. He revoked many of the privileges of Finland and strengthened the grip of Russian authorities in Finland. Finns used both passive and active methods to resist Russification, but for our story about the statue, we need only to cover the passive-aggressive form of resistance: Finns started laying flowers on the statue of Alexander II. The message was clear: “This czar that respected our autonomy was a good czar.“ The Russian authorities couldn’t really forbid the Finns from honoring the current emperor’s grandfather, so they did nothing.
After independence and during World War II there was talk about removing the statue, but the “Alexander II was important for Finnish statehood” side won out, and the statue stayed.
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6:15 That's a big no no, smoking at a balcony in an apartment complex is against the law in Finland, you can get evicted if you repeatedly get complaints from your neighbours to your landlord.
Also 57€ per night for such a big AirBnB is a steal.
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@moonliteX
2 months ago
Lots of Japanese people have always visited Finland. We have lots of similarities, from ski-jumping to bathing to respecting rules and quietness
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