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Date of upload: Feb 27, 2024 ^^
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Finalnd, Norway and Denmark all make fun of Sweden and Swedes. I guess this is because Finalnd was a part of Sweden for 700 years, Norway was forced into a Union with Sweden for 100 years and Sweden and Denmark had so many wars and in the end Sweden won Halland, Slåne and Blekinge from Danmark. So basically a lot of history where Sweden was the bully. Swedes on the other hand only make fun of Nowegians. More often than not it's the same jokes, Sweden and Norway just switch places in the jokes.
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In years 1100-1300 Sweden was already christian kingdom and finland was pagan tribes, not one nation. Sweden conquered Finnish tribal areas during those years about -ish, set their rule on finland and started to force christianity.
Russia took finland in the early 1800's. Finland did exist as an area of course and people there were under swedish rule - but finnish. With their own culture and language.
Finnish politics uses Sweden's situation now with the immigrant policies as a warning and try to prevent that. Let us see.
There is definately friendship and frenemy-situation going on between finland and sweden. Many also have family ties in the other country.
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Sweden and Finland could arguably be the closest to brother-nations there are. Apart from being the same country for 700 years until the Russians conquered the latter in 1809 we share almost the same culture, customs and legal framework.
I love Finland and would defend them as I would my own country. It's a special connection especially since there are hundreds of thousands Swedish speaking Finnish nationals and many Finnish in Sweden. We share a common heritage and apart from wanting to win in ice hockey I've never ever met a fin that hold any grudge against Sweden. Nordic brothers!
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Sweden just has got everything easier than Finland. They have managed to stay outside of wars for 200 years (before that they were a rich empire), while Finland started to build everything practically from zero in 1945, ravaged by wars. When you compare the two countries you must take into account where they started. In that regard Finland is actually a huge success story.
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There are quite conflicting accounts on HOW Sweden and Finland eventually became one country, but as a summary:
Sweden was a Christian country back in the 1300s, old accounts from those days say that the king of the time decided to go on a "crusade" to the lands in the East (current Finland). There they supposedly forced the Finns to become Swedish subjects.
More modern research into this has made people question if this crusade ever even happened, most likely it didn't.
What we DO know is that the area known today as Finland was basically just wilderness, with some Finnish tribes scattered about. The Swedes and the Finns traded a lot, and there was also some fighting, but there was no "Sweden conquered Finland". Partly because Finland did not exist, but that is just a technicality, the other point is that Sweden naturally grew into current day Finland, and the people who lived in the areas where the Swedes started to settle, where treated as Swedish peasants, like in actual Sweden. So, over time, the Finnish tribes just became Swedes. They spoke a strange language no Swede could understand, but as stated, they were counted as Swedes and had the same rights and obligations. Finland became very important for Swedish defense against Russia.
You could say that Finland was the shield, while Sweden was the sword.
Nobody like the upper class back in those days. It is understandable that the Finns negatively associate Swedish-speakers with aristocracy, in Finland, but for every Finn that had it bad back in those days, by math there would probably be 2x more Swedes who had it just as bad. All the Nordics were absolutely p***-poor until the 1900's came around, and the peasants where the worst off.
In the video, the Finn is quite sarcastic, so this makes the things he says quite confusing if you are not well-versed in our history. He is of course exaggerating a bit, but for example when he says that Finland provided for example soldiers to the Swedish army - this is true. However, Swedes were drafted just the same.
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@MaxSujyNorden
2 months ago
Saku Koivu was Habs captain from the time I was 12 to 24 years old. I grow up a huge Montreal Canadiens and Saku Koivu fans. So when I say that Sweden are better at Ice Hockey, it's not to downgrade how good Finnish players also are but to respond to some people from our previous videos who came out with the "world ranking", who hilariously had Germany #5 above of Sweden... lol!
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