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Not to mention that Simo Häyhä's record was not 'urban legend' as mentioned, but verified tally over the course of the wars... Thankfully there are several similar videos about mr. Häyhä and his exploits which remember to mention these things properly.
The Lapland war was the period after the continuation war, where Finnish were forced to kick the Germans out. It's excuseable, since you're a foreigner
@Stefan Calenic dude do you really think it’s cold all the time? I can tell you like two years ago i wen’t too finland (don’t ask why. it’s a tradition) and there was like 2000-5000+ mosquitoes.
@Jorgos Gustavus To me the implication is clear because of the of-genitive. If it were stated as "balls to the Scandinavian peninsula" it would have a different tone.
Ok, there's more. The reason why Lenin accepted Finnish independence in 1917 was partly because they had civil war all over the place in Russia, and partly because the Russian Bolsheviks hoped that their ideological partners in Finland would overthrow the newly declared independent government in a Finnish revolution. As you yourself state, the Reds received support from the Bolshevik during the civil war in 1918. You also missed the last part of the Finnish wars - The Lapland war 1944-45. This was fought against the German troops in Lapland, to drive them out instead of letting Soviet troops into the country to do it. Germany was militarily responsible for northern Finnish Lapland 1941-44.
The Russian bolsheviks didn't only hope - they practically made sure that the war in Finland started in January 1918 - within a month of the "agreement" with the Russian bolsheviks and the legal government of Finland. Without the Russian bolsheviks there wouldn't have been any war in Finland.
@@Cikeb Not really. When I read your text I got the impression, that the Russian bolsheviks were merely "helping" the Finnish Reds and "hoping" for the best (for them). Perhaps (hopefully) you didn't mean it quite like that, because in reality it was Russia and the Russian bolsheviks all along. As I wrote, there wouldn't have been any war in Finland without Lenin & co. The Russian bolsheviks agitated, initiated, armed and (partly) lead the Finnish Reds. The Russian bolshevik soldiers also fought along the Finnish Reds, as well as started the atrocities against the civilians. The Finnish Reds were mostly just ignorant and simple sheep, which were used for the soviet ideology.
@@timoterava7108 Lenin was urging the Finnish Social Democratic Party to take up arms long before the war even started. They refused many times while trying to achieve their political goals through the democratic process. The war begun only after the whites conspired with the temporary Russian Government to prevent a SDP led declaration of independence and to break up the Finnish parliament where SDP at the time had an absolute majority. The idea that the civil war was a (proxy) war against the Russian Bolsheviks is a later fabrication with few ties to reality. The White Guard was backed by the Germans and was even considering handing over Finland to the German empire after their victory and installing a German noble as the king. Only after Germany lost the war were they forced to go for real independence and democracy as well as make real concessions to the working class. The truth is the first victim of war and most people even now are ignorant and simple sheep, this is nothing new. It is also evident in the way you still take pride in your ancestors killing their own kind and keep propagating their retroactive justifications for this. The war was a great tragedy to the Finnish people and the saddest part is that it all could have been avoided had it not been for people like you.
Helsinki wasn't really the capitol during swedish reign, either at all, or barely for a short time, I believe it was Russia that made it the capitol, because it was closer to Russia. White Death isn't really an urban legend. And he's either known to have killed 500+ with his rifle and an additional 200 with his suomi submachinegun, and most of them are pretty much confirmed.
There was no "capitol" of Finland during the Swedish era, but Turku was always the city of Finnish administration. Helsinki became the capitol of the Grand Duchy in 1812. I'm pretty sure that the total of 500+ includes also the ones with the SMG, which were estimated, not counted. This still doesn't diminish Simo's achievements - at least not in my books.
@@timoterava7108 Tbh under Swedish reign there was no "Finnish" administration. Swedes kept the territory purposefully divided into separate zones to prevent the identity of a united people forming. Grand Duchy of Finland under the Russian Empire was the first time the entire territory of Finland was administered as one.
@@Luthies True. Turku was still the see of the bishop of Finland, who for a long time was the highest authority. Turku also was the "capital" of the Grand Duchy of Finland (during Johan III), which covered most of Finland.
@@timoterava7108 he had estimated 542 kills according to a researcher in war museum. And his unit's captain credited him with 259 confirmed kills by sniper rifle and an equal number of kills by SMG, total of 505 confirmed kills
I'm finnish and proud of it! My grandpa was in the continuation war and made through it alive. He never spoke or told about his experiences voluntarily, i'm sure he was traumatized. He carried grenade-sharps in is body for the rest of his life. I am so thankful for their sacrifices.
Finland has fought British only during the Crimean war, when French and British ships bombed several Finnish fortresses. There was war declared between these two during ww2, but actually the Brits wanted to help Finland during winter war, before the war was declared during Continuation war.
joonas19 As Finland was not an independent country, I don’t think it counts. But yes, no fighting actually occured during WW2 (or the Brits bombed German airfields in Finland?)
Wille D: While yes, the reason for the declaration of war was our alliance with the nazis, the UK declared war on us independently (on 6 December no less, rude). But yes, the reason was our ”alliance” with Germany.
@Nationalistic FINN Helsinki is as real Finland as any other part of the country is. You hillbilly boys prefer there are no cities at all for you are scared of noice and people.
Helsinki is as much Finland as New York is America (the USA) or Brussels Belgium - not really that much. In Finland it is common to speak of "the Helsinki bubble". Both the people inside and outside of the city see Helsinki as different. E.g. half of the immigrants (and especially most of the illegal ones) live in Helsinki area. The Greens party ("melons"...) of Finland practically only exists in there. The rest of the Finns still take protecting the environment seriously mind,, but they still want/need to live with the nature instead of only talking about it. One can find many other dividing examples. Of course Helsinki is the capital of Finland and many essential institutions are located there, but if you only visit Helsinki, you haven't really seen Finland. Helsinki is the exception, not the example, of Finland or the Finns.
@@timoterava7108 I don't think people get confused and mix cities for country side. Every country has cities and country side outside of the city, so I am pretty sure someone who says "I like Helsinki" does not think the whole Finland is just Helsinki spread up all over borders. They simply like the city. It is not some kind of 0 sum game where liking Helsinki is disliking the country side. Also me living in Helsinki area have never ever heard someone dislike any other part of Finland, and there are huge diversity of people living in the capital area. So called green-leftists are minority (although loud one) here and majority of people are just normal, hard working & family oriented good fellows.
Oh, and you got that revolt of 1595 completely loopsided I'm sorry to say. The so called "cudgel" or "club war" was a part of a bigger internal struggle in the Swedish realm, which included Poland-Lithuania. The war the Finnish peasents fought was not against the central power in Stockholm, but against the elite in Finland (based in Turku, Åbo in Swedish) that had sided with king Sigismund of Poland-Lithuania, son of the Swedish king Johan III and his Polish wife Katarina Jagellonica. As the son of the former king, Sigismund became the king of Sweden, but his uncle Charles (Karl in Swedish) would later oust him and become King Charles IX. It was Charles who gave his support to the peasents to fight against the elite in Finland, that had sided with Sigismund in the conflict. You see, in those late medieval days the peasents usually sought the protection of the king, from the nobles who usually administered the regions and collected the taxes. The rebels were not rebelling against Sweden you see. In fact, the peasents were as far as they knew subjects of the Swedish king. There was not a sense of national Finnish identity yet, especially not in the rural class. Not in Sweden either. Only the smaller, higher classes of society might have thought about such things. It seems you've fallen for outdated interpretations of history that were usual in those older history books, that were too often influenced by national-romaticism, and has a narrative which quite frankly is anachronistic, when it tries to explain people's motivations in those early days.
@rigegs Small correction. The concept of citizenship did not exist in the monarchy of those days. Everybody was a subject to the king/queen. Loyalty was expected to the monarch, not a people or a country. That's one major difference that people tend to forget about when comparing this day to yesterday.
@@Cikeb From what I've understood, the peasants of Finland had the right to send their deputies to attend the Swedish parliament. This differs from occupied areas that did not have this right and therefore can be considered as some kind of "citizenship".
@@1alecci It sure does. It's because the area today known as Finland was NOT occupied for over 500 years. It was an integral part of the Swedish realm, not a "colony". As you probably know, the only Finland back in the medieval days was the area around Turku. An area called "Finland Proper" nowadays. It was one of several Swedish provinces all around the realm. The other provinces were Tavastia, Karelia, Ostrobothnia, Nyland, Savonia and Satakunta. They were no different than the provinces in what is today known as Sweden.
@@Cikeb Was the amount of royal investment in these now-Finnish provinces equal to expenditures on equivalent areas in what is now (still) Sweden? Did the Swedish crown spend as much on roads and harbors, fortifications, combatting outlawry, administering justice, ameliorating famines and epidemics, etc.? I ask because I've read that, however the government felt about the geographical territory, the Finnish-speaking peoples and areas received only a fraction of the positive attention and development funds that Swedish-speaking areas got.
@Sina Fazel It's not a finnish name, so I don't know. The reason why I call myself "Finn" is because I took it out of Finnish. My actual finnish name is Kimi.
The reformation and the translation of the bible gave the Finnish language a proper written form for the first time Also Turku used to be the capital before Russia took over and moved the capital to Helsinki
Fun fact: Finland was the first country after Soviet Union to receive MIG21s, even before other Warsaw pact countries. Even funnier fact: the pilots sent to train in Russia saw a nuclear test, and one day the people in the facility they were at had disappeared. The Cuban missile crisis had started.
It was either that we would bought them from the Soviets or they would have come themselves to monitor our airspace. They wanted Leningrad and Murmansk vicinities to have modern aircover. I guess, It was also a way for the Soviets to know, would we enforce our neutrality when needed, I guess. You don't intercept western spyplanes with few DeHavilland Vampires and Folland Gnats. Interesting interview from a Finnish MiG-21 pilot th-cam.com/video/RaPQYCvVN6k/w-d-xo.html
One war you forgot to mention was the small part Finland had in the Russian civil war, where Finland through volunteers and "off the books" operations tried to at the very least achieve independence for the many people groups of Finno-ugric decent, if not annex the areas where they lived outright. These military operations where collectively called The Kinship Wars here in Finland. Now those are so obscure that many outside of Finland don't even know of them and are remembered by few. We don't really like to talk about it. The only really successful operation was that of our volunteer forces send to Estonia to help them achieve independence. The force was called the Sons of the Nordic.
That's because Estonians were really keen on the idea of Independence and fought really hard ( not only againts the Russian reds but their former German masters too ), but East and White Karelians really missed the train in Tartu Peace Treaty of 1920 and were betrayed by the USSR of their autonomy.
And now that I have had more time to think another war not mentioned was the Finnish rifle battalion of the Russian Imperial guard sent to fight along side with the Russians in the Crimean war as Finland was a grand duchy under Russia at the time. Most notably the battle of Gorni Dubnik.
You're kinda right. Finns were quite static during the viking age, fighting vikings that raided Finnish coastlines. But in the 1200's after Scandinavia became christian etc, Finns raided Scandinavians and burned Swedish cities and did trade with countries as far away as the Byzantine Empire.
Almost king* He declined the offer himself after seeing how bad the war was going for Germany, but it's still cool to think that we were that close to becoming a kingdom.
@@SilverGamingFI And everything between wars. The history of Finland, like that of pretty much any country, is full of interesting twists and turns not related to warfare or even foreign politics.
Good video, but Estonia is Finland's neighbour too :(. Estonia's history is similar to Finland's before and after middle ages (middle ages was weird thing anyways). We also were one of the last pagans in Europe (officialy it got christianised 1229) and got independence too after WWI, but unlike Finns, we lost our independence in 1940. Still, through the ages, we have kept close ties with the Finns and consider them as friends always. Love from Estonia!
The number given here for casualties during the "Great Wrath" is based on old research. Newer research puts the number closer to 20000 dead and over 20000 taken to slavery. This doesn't count the number of people who died to starvation due to Russian troops taking most of the food either.
Honestly im genuinely surprised as a finnish guy about the quality of this video. I even learned new stuff. All the animations were great, your voice is amazing for this and this couldnt get any better. Keep up the great content
There is one Finnish saying that still pops up in some times. ''Sweden will fight to the last Finn'' Meaning to us Finnish People that Sweden will tax shit out off you, and use you'r People to fight on Swedish wars like an meat shield.
@@blabarspaj_3381 that was then and now is now and future is mystery .at now Finnish army and Swedish army are doing some great cooperation in trying to maintain Nordic way of living and their independence. that i would like to see future as well th-cam.com/video/L8rGyWSC0O4/w-d-xo.html
Reason why Finland won the winter war is: The soviet soldiers were actually mostly Ukranians, dragged from their homes to fight a war they had no part in. They had no sufficient winter gear, no camouflage in the snow(brown/green jackets and pants) and the winter was the coldest in 50 years. People literally froze to death. Finns were used to those conditions. Still that being said, finns really fought remarkably concidering the power against them.
They lost, after 3 months of fighting supplies were running low and with a new experient soviet commander, the soviets were finally breaking through. So they surrendered and ceded lands.
Nice video of recent Finnish history, no bigger potash. The thing is, history is as it is written and the winner writes history. In Finland, as in many other countries, there has been systematic and well-organized conversion and extermination and killing (by the Swedes for a long time1250-1809), both in ancient culture and in indigenous religion. In Finland, this destruction and distortion has created a black hole in Finnish prehistory, which is mentioned in its brevity in two words before 1250 = Finnish prehistory (that's it). In Finland, almost everything is always made of wood, as the Vigings did. Everything has been easier to destroy, and in the Finnish climate, wooden buildings will not survive without constant maintenance. However, there are many references to ancient explorers' writings throughout Europe in ancient Finland and there are dozens of stone castle ruins and fortress islands in Finland, telling us that something existed before the Swedish rule, even before the Kingdom of Sweden. All the ruins are officially unexplored. According to written history, there had never been anything but wild people in Finland before the Swedish rule. So apparently all the ruins have been dropped from the sky by the ancient UFOs ...🥴 Luckily in Finland people have preserved a lot of information from the past and fortunately explorers from outside Finland have taken notes by writing. The Russian emperor gave Finland autonomy and later independence as you presented in the video. The Karelian Finland (formerly Livonian where Livonians lived and spoke Livonian) is nowadays mostly part of Russia, part of Finland. Karelia on the Russian side is the Autonomous Republic of Karelia. In conclusion, I could say that the official written history of Finland dates from 1809. However, if you find it interesting to look at the earlier official history of Finland before 1809, remember that it is written by Swedes and everything is a meaningful lie. Yes, yes the people know🤓 Ps. Map images do not properly open up historical boundary changes. Here you can see quite well how the borders have lived fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_aluemuutokset The pictures of the link also include the border areas of Great-Finland.
Nice, never expected this video to be made lol. As a finn, i approve of this. I myself would have talked about how Russia tried to russify Finland during the two periods of oppression, but other than that, great video!
@@BalkanOdyssey_ I wished you covered the details of the medieval Swedish (and Finnish) estate-based society, perhaps some economic aspects of Finland and the Finnish people at different times, a little more about the happenings and events during the Swedish rule, early Finnish independence and World War 2, if the video was 30 minutes long for example, but I can understand that it's even more work and would perhaps be too long of a video for people to watch. Dunno if people are interested to listen for 30 minutes about Finnish history. However, I think this was an excellent crash course in Finnish history. Good job!
Funerals for war heroes of the Winter War are still held in Finland even today. Deliveries are still coming regularly. Russia last handed over 40 winter war heroes found on the ground to Finland yesterday, on November 4, 2023. Or their remains. In the next few days, there will be funerals for 40 different families in Finland again, when these heroes will be escorted to their final resting place with the defense forces in the home country. History is not at all as far away as it may seem. Finnish history is still a part of Finns' lives, in many different ways.
There is no geographic logic in the term Scandinavia. Denmark isn't part of the Scandinavian peninsula either, while actually a part of northern Finland is. It is, like "the Nordic countries", a political and historical construct (compare the Baltics, Western Europe or Benelux), which has grown less important as a transnational cooperation dimension compared to "the Nordics"-dimension. As good as all cooperation happens in a Nordic context nowadays. Also, the early "proto-Finnic cultures" described here might not have spoken a Finnic language, but the genetic heritage is probably real. A lot of mixing has happened over the thousands of years. Although isolated compared to the rest of Europe, people did arrive in what was to become Finland too. Borrowed words from proto-germanic (way before Swedish became a factor) and the proto-baltic languages tell of this connection.
People often confuse the geographic and political/cultural terms. Here is the summary: Scandinavian peninsula (geographic) - Norway - Sweden, - the North-Western tip of Finland Fennoscandia (geographic) - Norway - Sweden - Finland - East Karelia (Russia) - the Kola Peninsula (Russia) Scandinavia (cultural) - Norway - Sweden - Denmark The Nordic countries/the Nordics (cultural, political) - Norway - Sweden - Denmark - Finland - Iceland
@@timoterava7108 Fennoscandinavia is also a geological area. We share a distinct bedrock from the rest of the Europe, formed mostly of granite and gneiss.
Thank you for talking about the greater wrath. It is really important part of history for some regions (like mine). It doesnt get mentioned much prob due to the lack of translations to english. Whole villages were killed and enslaved by the Russians. Dark times.
One could say that during Greater wrath the Finnish general population first painfully realized that they actually weren't the same country with the western half of the realm.
The club war wasn't a Finnish uprising, it was a larger wave of peasant uprisings. Also Sweden didn't conquer Finland because there was no Finland to conquer, and the crusades that went to Finland were crusades against Novgorod trying to spread into what today is Finland. Österland was as much of a part of Sweden as Svealand, Norrland and Götaland. There were Finns in the swedish parliament and the third university of the Swedish Empire was founded in Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku. Österland was a buffer between Russia and Sweden but that was the unfortunate fact of being the border land. Attacks on Österland was still an attack on Sweden. Finns were not exploited in war, they were still citizens of the Swedish empire and were called up to arms as any other citizen. The Finnish national identity came about in the 1800's when Nationalism began to spread across Europe. The awakening was first about building Finland up as a nation for the Finns but later became more a counter against the Russian empire, trying to suppress Finns and make Finland an integrated part of the Russian empire. What I'm trying to say is that it's unfortunate that the notion of Sweden as an oppressor of Finland still lives on. We were a part of Sweden, not a colony, not a sovereign country in a union with Sweden as some like to claim. We were as much of a part of Sweden as the 19 different regions are a part of Finland today.
Everything else is right in here and I want to underline in beginning that at that time the cultural influence of Sweden was really important to Österland. But they were exploited by crown, Finnlands dukes and swedish and german nobility. Crown branded Österlands people as primitive and simple, but that is right that Sweden saw Österlanden and it's provinces as part of their core lands. Also they heavily taxed "Finns", but over 50% of the taxes went back to mainland Sweden. Dukes helped crown to enlist Finns before swedish in their wars and use them as meat shield for better trained swedish forces (not to say that your people didn't see success in those wars either). Also native Österland nobility in the beginning moved a side from their places of power to give way to mainland and german nobility. And I'll put this again in the end. I think that swedish sphere of influence was the best choices of spheres that were close that time for evolving from backland area to somethin it is today.
Samalla logiikalla, isoa osaa Afrikan tulevista siirtokunnistakaan ei sanasta sanaan valloitettu, kun siellä oli vain suhteellisen vähälukuisia ryhmittymiä ihmisiä, jotka pitivät tiettyjä alueita koteinaan. Tulipa vain mieleen.
Sebastian Tiainen so just because there wasnt a country here makes it okay to enforce ones rules and cultures upon them through violence? And no matter how you try to justify the crusades still wont make it right, the US were in Vietnam to stop the spread of communism but ended up killing thousands of civilians and infecting the place with agent orange and other chemicals, its well documented that swedes, norwegians, danes and even germans all participated into these violent trips of raiding and conquering to finland which only later got the name ”the northern crusades” so they could save face, the indigenous people lost their rights to fish and farm (ancient moisio farms and fishing grounds of the coastlines immediately transferred to the crown) on the land they had inhabited for thousands of years so of course battling ensued (for example in Tavastia, Ostrobothnia, Satakunta, Eura etc.), in Ostrobothnia the swedes even brought real criminals in to Finland who had no interest in converting people but to war with the finns, a lot of people escaped from Tavastia and Satakunta to the north to get away from these convertings and to save their culture, after the last crusade in Karelia, the full on colonization and systematic destroying of our culture began, all our ancient rituals and gods were associated with the devil so through shame finns could be integrated (Perkele was changed from ancient god of thunder to the devil, coincidence?), practicing of ancient religions was made illegal in the 1600s but through smuggling/trafficking of pagan books these traditions lived on secretly, also in 1622 the law was passed that if a finn didnt want to speak swedish or go to church, he could be killed, where is the equality? I agree we were an important piece of land to the crown and a big factor in Sweden becoming a superpower, since they got a huge chunk of their resources (taxation) and soldiers from here, but the swedish elite never really cared about the people of Finland, finns were seen as expendables and were thrown as meatshields on to the battlefield during wartimes, battles against novgorod ensued on finnish grounds with big portions of the armies on both sides being finns, also Swedish kings and nobles never visited Finland and the crown inheriter Aadolf Fredrik admitted in the year 1746 that ”we were only swedens storage and buffer zone”, and since the beginning our language and culture was deemed inferior to those of swedish and german origin, swedish/germanic racial pseudosciences (such as phrenology) and eugenics targeted finns and other finno-ugrics heavily which affected our image to the rest of the world negatively (swedish racial studies about the ”superior germanic race” were later on copied by Adolf Hitler but originally they were used to justify the exploitation of ”inferior groups” such as the finno-ugrics, also the first institute of racial biology was in Sweden 1922), even up to the era of russian rule when Svecomans were trying to stop finnish independence in fear of losing their status in society, their political party RKP (which is still in parliament) used to spread racist rhetoric about us to undermine us, (also even after our independence and during WW2, our governments ”ruotsalaispykälä/swedish segment” favored finnish-swedes over those karelian refugees who lost their homes in the war), so becoming apart of swedish government back then was impossible unless you were a finnish-swede (descendant of swedish crusaders who settled on the finnish coast) And yes its true, we didnt have a ”finnish” identity but all these different tribes that inhabited finland and that later on became the finnish people had identities thats thousands of years older than the swedes themselves, before they were destroyed..
Typical fennomanic garbage.. under swedish rule our land would still be exploited. Your arguments are on par with the colonial idea of "White mans burden".
The Finnish landscape is one of the most striking in Europe.Finland is 80% covered with thick forest and thousands of lakes.Finland is not as mountainous as its closest neighbors, Norway, Sweden and Russia,but it is stunningly beautiful especially in the Autumn.
As a Finn I must admit, this was by far the most objective, unbiased and accurate presentation on Finnish history by a foreigner I have ever seen. Wow! Impressed! I could not have done a better job myself - I'll show this to my kids as well! Keep it up! Subscribing now :-)
This video was really interesting and as a finn i gotta praise your pronounciation of Finnish words👍🏻. Also fun fact, during the Civil war, my hometown of Seinäjoki acted as the main military and political hub of the white guard from 27.1.1918 to late March same year. PS: You earned a subscription
The war of Finland's real motive was the land embargo enforced by Napoleon against the Brits. All but the Swedes agreed to it, so Napoleon ordered his then ally Russia to attack Sweden to force it to stop the trade to Britain. Russia did this, but decided to take the entirety of Finland, since Russia knew the alliance with Napoleon was just temporary, and if Napoleon managed to convince Sweden to join it's attack of Russia, Finland would serve as a buffer for Russia.
Great video overall! I'd love to have seen more about the 1500s and Gustav the first, he truly was an instrumental part in shaping the path Sweden and especially Finland were heading towards, with the laws, protestant faith and a lot of other stuff. Also you really should've mentioned the first and second oppression periods, 1st being from 1899 to 1905 and 1908 to 1917 which lead to a lot of national spirit and will to leave the empire. Lastly as a side note you could've mentioned some of the great people of the 19th century Finland since that period is regarded as the golden age of Finnish art and literature and a lot of the nationalistic spirit was built up during that period. Nothing that was in the video pops out at me as wrong, but I still would've loved to see these things added. Anyway, love that you made the video, thank you a lot!
03:56 I'm pretty sure it's wrong to call it Swedish occupation. The complete land, or in the early days some parts of, what is the sovereign state of Finland today was simply part of Sweden from appr. 1150 to 1809. The country was called Sweden and it included these lands, it was not Sweden-Finland (sort of like Denmark-Norway) and there was no political union of any two states called Sweden and Finland etc., it was simply Sweden (although the kingdom of course included Finnish people). If anything Sweden colonised Finland in the early days and made it part of the country, but it wasn't a military/belligerent occupation. Finland have been occupied by Russia during this time (as part of Sweden) for brief periods, and Åland was occupied briefly by UK and France during the Crimean war etc.
@NäköKulmaPulma Well, Finnish-speaking areas were part of the Swedish Empire so it makes sense that they played their part. I would like to see your source for "mostly", because I don't think that's true. On wikipedia it says slightly less than half for the 30 years war, six Swedish companies and four Finnish. The Empire relied on many foreign soldiers, which might mean from places not part of Sweden unlike Finland, such as a lot of Germans (although some small northern parts of Germany were Swedish at the time). By the way, no need to "thank" a regular Swede like me. A regular Swede in those days had more in common with regular Finnish-speaking people than with a Swedish king. Guess who wanted the wars, the regular folks or a few kings and nobility men?
As a Finnish history nerd ( for what it's worth ) ,I have to say : Well done ! The humour here is spot on and there is no blatant over-simplifications I could spot no factual errors ( edit : except for the club war ) and pretty much all the Finnish history with it's most defining moments and developement as an independent state was covered really well. Perhaps there could have been a mention of Scandinavian Bronze age ( c. 1700-500 BC ) and more details about the developement of Finnish society under Russian rule ( 1812-1917 ) and the role of the Fennoman movement in shaping the country. And maybe also about the political turmoil and painful political reconciliations of the Interwar years ( 1918 - 1939 ). But that's actually all worth of nit-picking about your video here. And I like to nit-pick a lot, when it comes to history. Excellent work ! Liked and subscribed ! and велики поздрав to you ! ( You are Serbian, right ? )
Thank you very much mate, it means really a lot to get confirmation from a Finn himself and especially from someone who is interested in his country's history. Really motivates me, I'll give my best in the future too 😊
you might have forgotten one thing: finns school system is so much better than us school systems. 1: we have healthy school food 2: we have free school food. 3: people have anought food and money. so yeah
i am from finland and i really didn't know that uk decleared war against us. i believe we never learned about that in school at least i don't remember and history was one of my favorite subjects specially ww2
Fun fact : During WW2 Finland was first friendly with the axis powers who helped them during the continuation war and the they allied with the allied forces to push the axis powers out of lapland.
When you think about it. We technicly stabed them in the back. Witch would explain why they burned the houses on Lapland down. Before they where pushed back to Norway.
Very interesting choice of country to cover. I personally love this country and wish to visit. Baltic States shared a lot throughout the years together with Finland and Estonia. Great content, keep it up!
Not really! The Baltic states have a different history beeing vassal state of German whereof Finland shared some 800 years with Sweden and had to mingle with the other Scandinavian countries in unions and wars.
Thanks for the nice video! The audiovisuals were top notch! Having played only EU3 and not EU4, I was thinking to myself how the music sounded kind of familiar. And sure enough, it was because it was composed by the same Andreas Waldetoft. Great music! A few errors here and there but they've been brought up in other comments already. I was kind of surprised you didn't mention Finland joining the EU in 1995, considering how the last era you addressed was 1945-2020. Oh, and you definitely should've mentioned Nokia! ;D And perhaps the recession that began in 2008, from which we're still kind of recovering, but that wouldn't have ended the video in a very high note, now would it? xD
In years 1100-1200 finns were last pagans of the nordic countries, they were simply asked by crusaders ''sword or cross'' And made ''Perkele'' ( God of Thunder) calling name for the devil.
Most became Christians by choice, not because they were forced. The crusades into Finland weren't crusades against Finns but against Novgorod trying to spread orthodoxy from the east.
@@sebastiantiainen2749 Hahahaahahhahah!!! Christians by choice and peace! What a load of crap. Maybe do some of your own research and not just trust what your pastor tells you...
I'm finnish, but when watched video and noticed how much there has been war and fighting in Finland history. 😯 Even after so many years finally got independence there started civil war. 😕
Little-known fact: the earliest writings about Finland go way more Back than The Swedish crusades. In old Norwegian writings Finland is mentioned multiple times, for example about the ancient Finnish kings. It's debatable wether these point to tribes or more or less organized prehistoric society, though it's certain Finland has way richer and deeper history than commonly known. According to some writings, it is believed that the Nordic ancient Kings actually descend from these Finnish kings. Sadly this history is not taught in schools or aknowleged by some of the history people at all, but it still doesn't change the fact that there is A deep uncovered history of us which deserves to be revealed.
@@samuelskogqvist5565 wouln't claim anything we have no reason for.. i have no idea what marches you mentioned, don't really care about them, but those ancestries are from the old sagas that your ancestors and their cousins have written down.. we finns are not taught any of that, only Church history from conquerors' point of view
@@calbackk he is propably talkin about saxo grammaticus and snorri sturlusson's sagas(Fundinn Noregr)atleast and then there were third, it was saga by bardr lumitunturinharju about fornjótr or something. Old myths...
@@tmas47 But since it was against Germany and not the Soviets it deserves a mention. After all, it makes Finland the only country to successfully fight off both the Soviet Union and Germany during WWII (correct me if I'm wrong).
To clarify a bit on the cudgel war, the peasants did actually have firearms, they even had a few cannons on at least one occasion, also the war wasn't so much a Finnish rebellion against Sweden but a war born out of mistreatment of the local peasantry by soldiers employed by local nobility, who even in peace time were allowed to collect camp dues, a practice that goes back a long way in Europe. Duke Charles took advantage of the situation and agitated the peasantry who were already riled up by the mistreatment by the local men at arms and they then revolted. Klaus Fleming was another cause, he'd kept an army in Finland in what's called castle camp, which again means the men are usually billeted in local households and the peasantry have to essentially tend to their needs, and what that meant could vary depending on whether the people billeted in your house were abusive twats or decent folk. Needless to say in either case the peasantry would have still not been exactly pleased with the situation as they'd have to provide for the soldiers at a time in which war had already taken a toll on them.
7:50 Helsinki wasn’t yhe capitol that time it had only few hundred people living there. Turku was the capitol of the finland that time. Helsinki became the capital of finland when finland was given to russia in 1809.
Great job, so far one of the most complete and detailed history of Finland 🇫🇮 videos I've ever seen 😃 please, next do Sweden 🇸🇪 😊 (plus a suggestion, lower the volume of the background music, sometimes it covers your voice) 😉
Because the Hakkapeliittas were just a Swedish cavalry unit in the 1600's who were elevated to the almost mythical level during the 1800's as a part of the Finnish nationalistic awakening. I'm not saying that they weren't brave and good soldier but they were ultimately just a small part of the Swedish war machine.
Mate, independence of Finland started in 1917 when Bolsheviks (commies) came to power in Russian Empire and asked one question to all parts of Empire ''do you guys wanna stay or go'' ? You gave this info in a stange way...sounded like people of Finland actually said ''fuck you Russia'' and self declared their independence. Finland became independent only cuz Lenin gave them the choice. That's why Finland was officially recognized by government of RSFSR (USSR from 1922). Commies had all needed power to destroy and enslave Finland, but Lenin and leninists bolsheviks were not like Stalin and stalinist bolshevik. If not death of Lenin in 1922, the Winter War probably could have never happened.
Also, during Finnish Civil war, ''whites'' and ''reds'' were supported by russians. Reds were getting help from USSR and whites were getting great help from remaining soldiers and even generals of collapsed Russian Empire who were as badass as it gets. Don't forget who was a president of Finland after those times - Carl Mannerheim, aka. the guy who was born on lands of Russian Empire, knew russian language, was living in St. Petersburg and Moscow for huge part of his life, was General of Russian army and etc.
I thought that the first mention of Finns was by the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus in 98 AD. He described people the Romans called "Fenni". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenni
The Finnish never rebelled against Sweden it was just small peasant rebellions against high taxes, and Swedish peasants (living in Sweden) also did the same thing a few times.
@@omppusolttu5799 yeah but it wasn't finland rebelling against sweden rather peasants against the king. Not sure about the facts just clarifying his point
There were no Finnish Vikings, but there were Russes Vikings. Check out Viking expansion map. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Viking_Expansion.svg/1920px-Viking_Expansion.svg.png Map showing area of Scandinavian settlement in the eighth (dark red), ninth (red), tenth (orange) centuries. Yellow denotes areas conquered by the Normans in the 11th century. Green denotes areas subjected to Viking raids.
Of course they are the happiest nation on earth! They got the best educational system - no homework ever and you get a freaking sword along with your diploma at graduation! What's not to love!? :D Bloody heck, after everything that poor people have been through, they've definitely earned their happy ratings! :) And they got one of the best snacks ever - SALMIAKKI! Oh Finland ...... I'm glad you do, in fact, exist! :)
I remember reading an old story of a viking meeting a finish shaman. The viking went depper from the coast to the woods and heard wierd chanting. He followed the chanting and saw an old man just standing in the middle of nowhere. The viking asked the old man for directions for the coast. He got lost. But that old man kept chanting and waved his hands that the trees themselfs started moving like sentient creatures. In fear the viking ran trough the woods and found himself back to his ship and mates on the coast. He swoor after that he would never set his foot on those woods ever again. I don't know where it was from but it was over 10 years ago. The reason i remember it, is becouse it was a "spooky" tale or myth of this land. And i have hard time finding horror stories of Finland.
@@greeneyedwolfen9866 Back in the days vikings were believing that we had a power of darkness etc. I'm not allowed to confirm that, but nature is for sure our thing. 👀
Sebastian Tiainen “no reason to” but they explored and traveled all across europe and the world looking for land and people to exploit, including neighboring russia and baltic countries, but they for ”some reason” decided to leave this geographically identical land right next to them alone.. or maybe there was something keeping them away, the land of ancient shamanistic tribes with magical powers and fierce warrior giants who kept intruders at bay, little do finns know that even the vikings themselves wrote down about the kings of finland/kvenland from which all vikings descend from, and see the level of respect they had towards us in icelandic sagas where they spoke most highly about us while disrespecting the swedes as inferior people
Nobody else noticed that rice hat? Finns weren't considered "white" before the WW2. In the USA finns were called "china swedes","roundheads" and "finlander" (latter was as heavy racial slur back in a day, as n-word). Big reason for the hate was the fact that finns were active in labour unions. Mine owners wrote petition to Ellis Island officials to not let finns immigrate because of that. Things changed, for it was benefical to Allies of WW2 (especially to Russia) to highlight the connection between Finland and Germany. Finns also took distance to "communist activities" because they hated the Soviet Union, meaning less activism in labour unions in the US.
@@BalkanOdyssey_ That was my reaction too, when I found out. I thought you knew since there was that rice hat. Finns not being white was (is) based on the thought that finns are "mongols" (or "china swedes") . There's still people (especially in Sweden) who think that.
I apologize for the first soundtrack being noisy and as you may have noticed with headphones, being hearable only on one ear.
I guess these are the mistakes where I will learn the most for future videos, so I hope you don't mind :)
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You forgot lapland war
You should do estonnia
Not to mention that Simo Häyhä's record was not 'urban legend' as mentioned, but verified tally over the course of the wars... Thankfully there are several similar videos about mr. Häyhä and his exploits which remember to mention these things properly.
The Lapland war was the period after the continuation war, where Finnish were forced to kick the Germans out. It's excuseable, since you're a foreigner
@@samiels5081 winter war not cold war
Someone once said: Swedes we are not, Russians we do not want to become, let us therefore be Finns
This
That would be Adolf Ivar Arwidsson.
that's told by a german - swedish guy and sounds like finns are a made up thing which is utterly retarded
In finish Ruotsalaisia Emme ole Venäläisiksi emme tule, anna meidän olla Suomalaisia.
The Fennoman movement in a nutshell . . .
”The land of snow”
*looks outside*
Let me stop you right there
😂
Right! this is cold crapland!🥶
🅱️ERSE
**Silent sadness noice**
There is very much snow look outside or not
Finnish history is pretty much: tribes, Sweden, Russia, intependence
Mosquitoes!? But its cold there how do you have them there? :D
@@Calaman228 mosquitos breed at fall and hibernate during winter and hatch again when summer comes.
@Stefan Calenic dude do you really think it’s cold all the time? I can tell you like two years ago i wen’t too finland (don’t ask why. it’s a tradition) and there was like 2000-5000+ mosquitoes.
there's been tribal kindoms a thousand years before swedes and russians tho, all the history has been written by swedes
@@user-ce6iy2nw5o More like chiefdoms / petty kingdoms. And most of the earliest literary mentions seem to come from Novgorodian chronicles.
Why is finland so brave?
It's because they're the balls of the scandinavian peninsula.
As a finn I approve this. Sweden is the great dick of Scandinavia.
*Fennoscandian. Finland is not part of Scandinavia...
Sipu97 they never said Finland was part of the Scandinavia?
@Jorgos Gustavus To me the implication is clear because of the of-genitive. If it were stated as "balls to the Scandinavian peninsula" it would have a different tone.
This, this puts a smile in my face
Serb from Bosnia talks about Finland (2020 colorized)
Expect the unexpected
Wut is this true?
my like is the 69'th nice
@@lloyd.a Very true
Serbian Mapping then I shall expect you to go over the history of Central Asia. That would truly be unexpected.
Ok, there's more. The reason why Lenin accepted Finnish independence in 1917 was partly because they had civil war all over the place in Russia, and partly because the Russian Bolsheviks hoped that their ideological partners in Finland would overthrow the newly declared independent government in a Finnish revolution. As you yourself state, the Reds received support from the Bolshevik during the civil war in 1918.
You also missed the last part of the Finnish wars - The Lapland war 1944-45. This was fought against the German troops in Lapland, to drive them out instead of letting Soviet troops into the country to do it. Germany was militarily responsible for northern Finnish Lapland 1941-44.
The Russian bolsheviks didn't only hope - they practically made sure that the war in Finland started in January 1918 - within a month of the "agreement" with the Russian bolsheviks and the legal government of Finland.
Without the Russian bolsheviks there wouldn't have been any war in Finland.
@@timoterava7108 Semantics, but yeah.
@@Cikeb Not really. When I read your text I got the impression, that the Russian bolsheviks were merely "helping" the Finnish Reds and "hoping" for the best (for them).
Perhaps (hopefully) you didn't mean it quite like that, because in reality it was Russia and the Russian bolsheviks all along. As I wrote, there wouldn't have been any war in Finland without Lenin & co.
The Russian bolsheviks agitated, initiated, armed and (partly) lead the Finnish Reds. The Russian bolshevik soldiers also fought along the Finnish Reds, as well as started the atrocities against the civilians.
The Finnish Reds were mostly just ignorant and simple sheep, which were used for the soviet ideology.
@@timoterava7108 Lenin was urging the Finnish Social Democratic Party to take up arms long before the war even started. They refused many times while trying to achieve their political goals through the democratic process. The war begun only after the whites conspired with the temporary Russian Government to prevent a SDP led declaration of independence and to break up the Finnish parliament where SDP at the time had an absolute majority.
The idea that the civil war was a (proxy) war against the Russian Bolsheviks is a later fabrication with few ties to reality. The White Guard was backed by the Germans and was even considering handing over Finland to the German empire after their victory and installing a German noble as the king. Only after Germany lost the war were they forced to go for real independence and democracy as well as make real concessions to the working class.
The truth is the first victim of war and most people even now are ignorant and simple sheep, this is nothing new. It is also evident in the way you still take pride in your ancestors killing their own kind and keep propagating their retroactive justifications for this. The war was a great tragedy to the Finnish people and the saddest part is that it all could have been avoided had it not been for people like you.
Finland has always been the brighest jewel In the Tzar's crown.
Helsinki wasn't really the capitol during swedish reign, either at all, or barely for a short time, I believe it was Russia that made it the capitol, because it was closer to Russia.
White Death isn't really an urban legend. And he's either known to have killed 500+ with his rifle and an additional 200 with his suomi submachinegun, and most of them are pretty much confirmed.
There was no "capitol" of Finland during the Swedish era, but Turku was always the city of Finnish administration. Helsinki became the capitol of the Grand Duchy in 1812.
I'm pretty sure that the total of 500+ includes also the ones with the SMG, which were estimated, not counted. This still doesn't diminish Simo's achievements - at least not in my books.
@@timoterava7108 Tbh under Swedish reign there was no "Finnish" administration. Swedes kept the territory purposefully divided into separate zones to prevent the identity of a united people forming. Grand Duchy of Finland under the Russian Empire was the first time the entire territory of Finland was administered as one.
@@Luthies True. Turku was still the see of the bishop of Finland, who for a long time was the highest authority. Turku also was the "capital" of the Grand Duchy of Finland (during Johan III), which covered most of Finland.
@@timoterava7108 he had estimated 542 kills according to a researcher in war museum. And his unit's captain credited him with 259 confirmed kills by sniper rifle and an equal number of kills by SMG, total of 505 confirmed kills
capital of finland* capitol on kongressitalo
My left ear really enjoyed that soundtrack
Yep noticed only after i uploaded... Was very frustrsting..
Too and i am finnish person
i just want my ear to explode
My right ear realy enjoying classic
Thank God I'm not the only one. Thought my earbuds finally broke
When serbian mapping from Bosnia living in germany usually making videos explaining balkan history talks about finland: *visible confusion*
Expect the unexpected
*Lol i know you from discord.*
@@Just_Alex5 ye Ik
So many of us in bosnia, damn
@@BalkanOdyssey_ Wait, you live in Germany? Kannst du auch Deutsch? Ich bin nämlich aus Österreich.
Finnish history: "Invasion by Sweden, war, war, war, Invasion by Russians, war, war, war"
Thank god, you came around. Can you please snipe our national debt and aging population.
Also submachineguning them
is good enough
simo häyhä 😎
Ur name is not right its simo häyhä
@@11sjv your name should be hot dirt block not bl0ck
Suomi mainittu TORILLA TAVATAAN! Alo brate kakosi!
Sulla on vaan yks like scouppi aika ihmeellistä👍😂
Moi scouppi
Joku paikka missä scouppia kaikki ei tunne
Moi scouppi
Säki tääl:D
Finland is a brave nation. Respect.
I'm finnish and proud of it! My grandpa was in the continuation war and made through it alive.
He never spoke or told about his experiences voluntarily, i'm sure he was traumatized. He carried grenade-sharps in is body for the rest of his life.
I am so thankful for their sacrifices.
You could've used Jean Sibelius for the background music
that would have been pretty cool
but what if jean sibelius copyright claimed him
@@akioja1112 the copyright actually goes out in 3 years
Fun fact: Britain against Finland is the only war between two completely democratic countries in history!
Hm? Wdym Finland alone has never been in war with UK. It was cus we were with nazis :D
Has Finland actually ever been in war with Britain?
Finland has fought British only during the Crimean war, when French and British ships bombed several Finnish fortresses. There was war declared between these two during ww2, but actually the Brits wanted to help Finland during winter war, before the war was declared during Continuation war.
joonas19 As Finland was not an independent country, I don’t think it counts. But yes, no fighting actually occured during WW2 (or the Brits bombed German airfields in Finland?)
Wille D: While yes, the reason for the declaration of war was our alliance with the nazis, the UK declared war on us independently (on 6 December no less, rude). But yes, the reason was our ”alliance” with Germany.
My favorite country in the world besides Germany of course. I already was in Helsinki and the city is a beauty.
@Nationalistic FINN Helsinki is as real Finland as any other part of the country is. You hillbilly boys prefer there are no cities at all for you are scared of noice and people.
@@ninaakari5181 Tbh Helsinki is kinda ass. Every other city is better in Finland imo. Finland is kinda ugly country tho.
Helsinki is as much Finland as New York is America (the USA) or Brussels Belgium - not really that much.
In Finland it is common to speak of "the Helsinki bubble". Both the people inside and outside of the city see Helsinki as different.
E.g. half of the immigrants (and especially most of the illegal ones) live in Helsinki area. The Greens party ("melons"...) of Finland practically only exists in there. The rest of the Finns still take protecting the environment seriously mind,, but they still want/need to live with the nature instead of only talking about it.
One can find many other dividing examples. Of course Helsinki is the capital of Finland and many essential institutions are located there, but if you only visit Helsinki, you haven't really seen Finland.
Helsinki is the exception, not the example, of Finland or the Finns.
@@timoterava7108 I don't think people get confused and mix cities for country side. Every country has cities and country side outside of the city, so I am pretty sure someone who says "I like Helsinki" does not think the whole Finland is just Helsinki spread up all over borders. They simply like the city. It is not some kind of 0 sum game where liking Helsinki is disliking the country side. Also me living in Helsinki area have never ever heard someone dislike any other part of Finland, and there are huge diversity of people living in the capital area. So called green-leftists are minority (although loud one) here and majority of people are just normal, hard working & family oriented good fellows.
@@ninaakari5181 I didn't write anything about liking or disliking - just that Helsinki (area) is not typical Finland.
Oh, and you got that revolt of 1595 completely loopsided I'm sorry to say. The so called "cudgel" or "club war" was a part of a bigger internal struggle in the Swedish realm, which included Poland-Lithuania. The war the Finnish peasents fought was not against the central power in Stockholm, but against the elite in Finland (based in Turku, Åbo in Swedish) that had sided with king Sigismund of Poland-Lithuania, son of the Swedish king Johan III and his Polish wife Katarina Jagellonica. As the son of the former king, Sigismund became the king of Sweden, but his uncle Charles (Karl in Swedish) would later oust him and become King Charles IX. It was Charles who gave his support to the peasents to fight against the elite in Finland, that had sided with Sigismund in the conflict. You see, in those late medieval days the peasents usually sought the protection of the king, from the nobles who usually administered the regions and collected the taxes. The rebels were not rebelling against Sweden you see. In fact, the peasents were as far as they knew subjects of the Swedish king. There was not a sense of national Finnish identity yet, especially not in the rural class. Not in Sweden either. Only the smaller, higher classes of society might have thought about such things.
It seems you've fallen for outdated interpretations of history that were usual in those older history books, that were too often influenced by national-romaticism, and has a narrative which quite frankly is anachronistic, when it tries to explain people's motivations in those early days.
@rigegs Small correction. The concept of citizenship did not exist in the monarchy of those days. Everybody was a subject to the king/queen. Loyalty was expected to the monarch, not a people or a country. That's one major difference that people tend to forget about when comparing this day to yesterday.
Thanks for explaining this so clearly!
@@Cikeb From what I've understood, the peasants of Finland had the right to send their deputies to attend the Swedish parliament. This differs from occupied areas that did not have this right and therefore can be considered as some kind of "citizenship".
@@1alecci It sure does. It's because the area today known as Finland was NOT occupied for over 500 years. It was an integral part of the Swedish realm, not a "colony". As you probably know, the only Finland back in the medieval days was the area around Turku. An area called "Finland Proper" nowadays. It was one of several Swedish provinces all around the realm. The other provinces were Tavastia, Karelia, Ostrobothnia, Nyland, Savonia and Satakunta. They were no different than the provinces in what is today known as Sweden.
@@Cikeb Was the amount of royal investment in these now-Finnish provinces equal to expenditures on equivalent areas in what is now (still) Sweden? Did the Swedish crown spend as much on roads and harbors, fortifications, combatting outlawry, administering justice, ameliorating famines and epidemics, etc.? I ask because I've read that, however the government felt about the geographical territory, the Finnish-speaking peoples and areas received only a fraction of the positive attention and development funds that Swedish-speaking areas got.
Respect from Finland.
@Sina Fazel It's not a finnish name, so I don't know.
The reason why I call myself "Finn" is because I took it out of Finnish.
My actual finnish name is Kimi.
@Sina Fazel What about it?
Finland is so good that there is a saying like
Being born in finland is like winning the lottery
Yes it is and i just won borning lottery
Today it's like winning on the slot machine.
For the immigrants from islam countries it's like winning from a lottery when they get here.
Remember Miss Helsinki 2017? :)
guess i won the lottery then
Guess i'm lucky then
The reformation and the translation of the bible gave the Finnish language a proper written form for the first time
Also Turku used to be the capital before Russia took over and moved the capital to Helsinki
Fun fact: Finland was the first country after Soviet Union to receive MIG21s, even before other Warsaw pact countries.
Even funnier fact: the pilots sent to train in Russia saw a nuclear test, and one day the people in the facility they were at had disappeared. The Cuban missile crisis had started.
It was either that we would bought them from the Soviets or they would have come themselves to monitor our airspace. They wanted Leningrad and Murmansk vicinities to have modern aircover. I guess, It was also a way for the Soviets to know, would we enforce our neutrality when needed, I guess. You don't intercept western spyplanes with few DeHavilland Vampires and Folland Gnats.
Interesting interview from a Finnish MiG-21 pilot
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Those MiG21 were beautiful and were cutting edge aerospace tech in 60-70s. Too bad they are obsolete now, glad i got to see them fly
One war you forgot to mention was the small part Finland had in the Russian civil war, where Finland through volunteers and "off the books" operations tried to at the very least achieve independence for the many people groups of Finno-ugric decent, if not annex the areas where they lived outright. These military operations where collectively called The Kinship Wars here in Finland. Now those are so obscure that many outside of Finland don't even know of them and are remembered by few. We don't really like to talk about it. The only really successful operation was that of our volunteer forces send to Estonia to help them achieve independence. The force was called the Sons of the Nordic.
We thank the Finns forever for that!
That's because Estonians were really keen on the idea of Independence and fought really hard ( not only againts the Russian reds but their former German masters too ), but East and White Karelians really missed the train in Tartu Peace Treaty of 1920 and were betrayed by the USSR of their autonomy.
And now that I have had more time to think another war not mentioned was the Finnish rifle battalion of the Russian Imperial guard sent to fight along side with the Russians in the Crimean war as Finland was a grand duchy under Russia at the time. Most notably the battle of Gorni Dubnik.
Vikings weren't that much of thing in finland thought. It was more like vikings raided here and finns fought against them.
You're kinda right. Finns were quite static during the viking age, fighting vikings that raided Finnish coastlines. But in the 1200's after Scandinavia became christian etc, Finns raided Scandinavians and burned Swedish cities and did trade with countries as far away as the Byzantine Empire.
@@paavoilves5416 Wait we Finns did that? wow
Thank you! This was a very well made video but it would have been cool if you had talked about me, the king of Finland.
Thank you man, I'm sorry but I realy had to oversimplify many parts of the history in order to pack everything into under 15mins
Well, if you'd had stuck with Väinö instead of that misch-masch of a name...
Almost king*
He declined the offer himself after seeing how bad the war was going for Germany, but it's still cool to think that we were that close to becoming a kingdom.
@@skidi4218 Yes. Technically I wasn't a king but the the official name of Finland for few months was "Kingdom of Finland".
@syntikkamies I changed My channel name
Makes my head hurt when so much crucial history has to be left out to make this video fit under 16 mins.
Which parts of history would you consider important to mention as well?
@@henri9109 thw Lapland war for example
@@SilverGamingFI And everything between wars. The history of Finland, like that of pretty much any country, is full of interesting twists and turns not related to warfare or even foreign politics.
@@henri9109 muinaiskuninkaat?
Good video, but Estonia is Finland's neighbour too :(. Estonia's history is similar to Finland's before and after middle ages (middle ages was weird thing anyways). We also were one of the last pagans in Europe (officialy it got christianised 1229) and got independence too after WWI, but unlike Finns, we lost our independence in 1940. Still, through the ages, we have kept close ties with the Finns and consider them as friends always. Love from Estonia!
@Mika Hamari tõsi
its not neibhbour theres the ocean between finland and estonia
Kiitos halvasta viinasta🙏
You're not my friend, you're my brother my friend!
@@hohoo4067 ocean you say... It is a gulf...
The number given here for casualties during the "Great Wrath" is based on old research. Newer research puts the number closer to 20000 dead and over 20000 taken to slavery. This doesn't count the number of people who died to starvation due to Russian troops taking most of the food either.
It would be nice to see the history of the vikings
Could be a very interesting video idea. Thank you!
@@BalkanOdyssey_ if you do! Take up that Viking was a thing people did. Most people was farmers and traders
@@Minecratify that doesn't mean, that viking is a thing people "did". I viking, you viking, he vikings?
Mun kaveri on sukua viikingeille XD
@Polish Hero Witold Pilecki Wikipedia source, the best source.
Honestly im genuinely surprised as a finnish guy about the quality of this video. I even learned new stuff. All the animations were great, your voice is amazing for this and this couldnt get any better. Keep up the great content
Im extremely glad that you liked the video and that you find it educational and well-made. It actually means hella lot and motivates me. Thank you!
Im from Finland, and i can confirm that Finland had 10 tanks on start of the winter war. Not 32 tanks, as this video tells.
Im from uruguay and i know that you are gay
There is one Finnish saying that still pops up in some times. ''Sweden will fight to the last Finn'' Meaning to us Finnish
People that Sweden will tax shit out off you, and use you'r People to fight on Swedish wars like an meat shield.
Blåbärspaj _ I find it quite interesting how Sweden stopped warring after they lost Finland.
@@blabarspaj_3381 that was then and now is now and future is mystery .at now
Finnish army and Swedish army are doing some great cooperation in trying to maintain Nordic way of living and their independence. that i would like to see future as well
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Trapped In A Bagel We took Norway after we lost you though
@@finnishwehraboo8377 😆😆
@@grateug6887" You" didn't "take" Norway - it was given. Google it.
Reason why Finland won the winter war is: The soviet soldiers were actually mostly Ukranians, dragged from their homes to fight a war they had no part in. They had no sufficient winter gear, no camouflage in the snow(brown/green jackets and pants) and the winter was the coldest in 50 years. People literally froze to death. Finns were used to those conditions. Still that being said, finns really fought remarkably concidering the power against them.
Finland lost the winter war
Yes but actualy No
@@mystergamer0750 actually yes. Even though Stalin didn't get what he wanted, Finland still lost the war
They lost, after 3 months of fighting supplies were running low and with a new experient soviet commander, the soviets were finally breaking through. So they surrendered and ceded lands.
@@Cocakone Finland retained it's independence and freedom. It is a victory.
Nice video of recent Finnish history, no bigger potash. The thing is, history is as it is written and the winner writes history. In Finland, as in many other countries, there has been systematic and well-organized conversion and extermination and killing (by the Swedes for a long time1250-1809), both in ancient culture and in indigenous religion. In Finland, this destruction and distortion has created a black hole in Finnish prehistory, which is mentioned in its brevity in two words before 1250 = Finnish prehistory (that's it). In Finland, almost everything is always made of wood, as the Vigings did. Everything has been easier to destroy, and in the Finnish climate, wooden buildings will not survive without constant maintenance. However, there are many references to ancient explorers' writings throughout Europe in ancient Finland and there are dozens of stone castle ruins and fortress islands in Finland, telling us that something existed before the Swedish rule, even before the Kingdom of Sweden. All the ruins are officially unexplored. According to written history, there had never been anything but wild people in Finland before the Swedish rule. So apparently all the ruins have been dropped from the sky by the ancient UFOs ...🥴 Luckily in Finland people have preserved a lot of information from the past and fortunately explorers from outside Finland have taken notes by writing. The Russian emperor gave Finland autonomy and later independence as you presented in the video. The Karelian Finland (formerly Livonian where Livonians lived and spoke Livonian) is nowadays mostly part of Russia, part of Finland. Karelia on the Russian side is the Autonomous Republic of Karelia. In conclusion, I could say that the official written history of Finland dates from 1809. However, if you find it interesting to look at the earlier official history of Finland before 1809, remember that it is written by Swedes and everything is a meaningful lie. Yes, yes the people know🤓
Ps.
Map images do not properly open up historical boundary changes. Here you can see quite well how the borders have lived fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_aluemuutokset The pictures of the link also include the border areas of Great-Finland.
Nice, never expected this video to be made lol. As a finn, i approve of this. I myself would have talked about how Russia tried to russify Finland during the two periods of oppression, but other than that, great video!
Thank you mate, It really means a lot to know and see Finns themselves approving the video and supporting me!
@@BalkanOdyssey_ I wished you covered the details of the medieval Swedish (and Finnish) estate-based society, perhaps some economic aspects of Finland and the Finnish people at different times, a little more about the happenings and events during the Swedish rule, early Finnish independence and World War 2, if the video was 30 minutes long for example, but I can understand that it's even more work and would perhaps be too long of a video for people to watch. Dunno if people are interested to listen for 30 minutes about Finnish history. However, I think this was an excellent crash course in Finnish history. Good job!
Glad to have found this channel! High quality and well versed.
Love the Eu4 Music used in the video. And the video was really good and something you really should be proud of. Good job, Serbian!
Thank you man, it really means a lot 😊
Funerals for war heroes of the Winter War are still held in Finland even today. Deliveries are still coming regularly. Russia last handed over 40 winter war heroes found on the ground to Finland yesterday, on November 4, 2023. Or their remains. In the next few days, there will be funerals for 40 different families in Finland again, when these heroes will be escorted to their final resting place with the defense forces in the home country. History is not at all as far away as it may seem. Finnish history is still a part of Finns' lives, in many different ways.
There is no geographic logic in the term Scandinavia. Denmark isn't part of the Scandinavian peninsula either, while actually a part of northern Finland is. It is, like "the Nordic countries", a political and historical construct (compare the Baltics, Western Europe or Benelux), which has grown less important as a transnational cooperation dimension compared to "the Nordics"-dimension. As good as all cooperation happens in a Nordic context nowadays.
Also, the early "proto-Finnic cultures" described here might not have spoken a Finnic language, but the genetic heritage is probably real. A lot of mixing has happened over the thousands of years. Although isolated compared to the rest of Europe, people did arrive in what was to become Finland too. Borrowed words from proto-germanic (way before Swedish became a factor) and the proto-baltic languages tell of this connection.
People often confuse the geographic and political/cultural terms. Here is the summary:
Scandinavian peninsula (geographic)
- Norway
- Sweden,
- the North-Western tip of Finland
Fennoscandia (geographic)
- Norway
- Sweden
- Finland
- East Karelia (Russia)
- the Kola Peninsula (Russia)
Scandinavia (cultural)
- Norway
- Sweden
- Denmark
The Nordic countries/the Nordics (cultural, political)
- Norway
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Finland
- Iceland
@@timoterava7108 Fennoscandinavia is also a geological area. We share a distinct bedrock from the rest of the Europe, formed mostly of granite and gneiss.
Thank you for talking about the greater wrath. It is really important part of history for some regions (like mine). It doesnt get mentioned much prob due to the lack of translations to english. Whole villages were killed and enslaved by the Russians. Dark times.
One could say that during Greater wrath the Finnish general population first painfully realized that they actually weren't the same country with the western half of the realm.
The club war wasn't a Finnish uprising, it was a larger wave of peasant uprisings. Also Sweden didn't conquer Finland because there was no Finland to conquer, and the crusades that went to Finland were crusades against Novgorod trying to spread into what today is Finland.
Österland was as much of a part of Sweden as Svealand, Norrland and Götaland. There were Finns in the swedish parliament and the third university of the Swedish Empire was founded in Finland, the Royal Academy of Turku.
Österland was a buffer between Russia and Sweden but that was the unfortunate fact of being the border land. Attacks on Österland was still an attack on Sweden. Finns were not exploited in war, they were still citizens of the Swedish empire and were called up to arms as any other citizen.
The Finnish national identity came about in the 1800's when Nationalism began to spread across Europe. The awakening was first about building Finland up as a nation for the Finns but later became more a counter against the Russian empire, trying to suppress Finns and make Finland an integrated part of the Russian empire.
What I'm trying to say is that it's unfortunate that the notion of Sweden as an oppressor of Finland still lives on. We were a part of Sweden, not a colony, not a sovereign country in a union with Sweden as some like to claim. We were as much of a part of Sweden as the 19 different regions are a part of Finland today.
Everything else is right in here and I want to underline in beginning that at that time the cultural influence of Sweden was really important to Österland. But they were exploited by crown, Finnlands dukes and swedish and german nobility. Crown branded Österlands people as primitive and simple, but that is right that Sweden saw Österlanden and it's provinces as part of their core lands. Also they heavily taxed "Finns", but over 50% of the taxes went back to mainland Sweden. Dukes helped crown to enlist Finns before swedish in their wars and use them as meat shield for better trained swedish forces (not to say that your people didn't see success in those wars either). Also native Österland nobility in the beginning moved a side from their places of power to give way to mainland and german nobility. And I'll put this again in the end. I think that swedish sphere of influence was the best choices of spheres that were close that time for evolving from backland area to somethin it is today.
Samalla logiikalla, isoa osaa Afrikan tulevista siirtokunnistakaan ei sanasta sanaan valloitettu, kun siellä oli vain suhteellisen vähälukuisia ryhmittymiä ihmisiä, jotka pitivät tiettyjä alueita koteinaan. Tulipa vain mieleen.
Sebastian Tiainen so just because there wasnt a country here makes it okay to enforce ones rules and cultures upon them through violence? And no matter how you try to justify the crusades still wont make it right, the US were in Vietnam to stop the spread of communism but ended up killing thousands of civilians and infecting the place with agent orange and other chemicals, its well documented that swedes, norwegians, danes and even germans all participated into these violent trips of raiding and conquering to finland which only later got the name ”the northern crusades” so they could save face, the indigenous people lost their rights to fish and farm (ancient moisio farms and fishing grounds of the coastlines immediately transferred to the crown) on the land they had inhabited for thousands of years so of course battling ensued (for example in Tavastia, Ostrobothnia, Satakunta, Eura etc.), in Ostrobothnia the swedes even brought real criminals in to Finland who had no interest in converting people but to war with the finns, a lot of people escaped from Tavastia and Satakunta to the north to get away from these convertings and to save their culture, after the last crusade in Karelia, the full on colonization and systematic destroying of our culture began, all our ancient rituals and gods were associated with the devil so through shame finns could be integrated (Perkele was changed from ancient god of thunder to the devil, coincidence?), practicing of ancient religions was made illegal in the 1600s but through smuggling/trafficking of pagan books these traditions lived on secretly, also in 1622 the law was passed that if a finn didnt want to speak swedish or go to church, he could be killed, where is the equality?
I agree we were an important piece of land to the crown and a big factor in Sweden becoming a superpower, since they got a huge chunk of their resources (taxation) and soldiers from here, but the swedish elite never really cared about the people of Finland, finns were seen as expendables and were thrown as meatshields on to the battlefield during wartimes, battles against novgorod ensued on finnish grounds with big portions of the armies on both sides being finns, also Swedish kings and nobles never visited Finland and the crown inheriter Aadolf Fredrik admitted in the year 1746 that ”we were only swedens storage and buffer zone”, and since the beginning our language and culture was deemed inferior to those of swedish and german origin, swedish/germanic racial pseudosciences (such as phrenology) and eugenics targeted finns and other finno-ugrics heavily which affected our image to the rest of the world negatively (swedish racial studies about the ”superior germanic race” were later on copied by Adolf Hitler but originally they were used to justify the exploitation of ”inferior groups” such as the finno-ugrics, also the first institute of racial biology was in Sweden 1922), even up to the era of russian rule when Svecomans were trying to stop finnish independence in fear of losing their status in society, their political party RKP (which is still in parliament) used to spread racist rhetoric about us to undermine us, (also even after our independence and during WW2, our governments ”ruotsalaispykälä/swedish segment” favored finnish-swedes over those karelian refugees who lost their homes in the war), so becoming apart of swedish government back then was impossible unless you were a finnish-swede (descendant of swedish crusaders who settled on the finnish coast)
And yes its true, we didnt have a ”finnish” identity but all these different tribes that inhabited finland and that later on became the finnish people had identities thats thousands of years older than the swedes themselves, before they were destroyed..
Oli ne Venäläiset parempia kuitenkin.
Typical fennomanic garbage.. under swedish rule our land would still be exploited. Your arguments are on par with the colonial idea of "White mans burden".
The Finnish landscape is one of the most striking in Europe.Finland is 80% covered with thick forest and thousands of lakes.Finland is not as mountainous as its closest neighbors, Norway, Sweden and Russia,but it is stunningly beautiful especially in the Autumn.
As a Finn I must admit, this was by far the most objective, unbiased and accurate presentation on Finnish history by a foreigner I have ever seen. Wow! Impressed! I could not have done a better job myself - I'll show this to my kids as well! Keep it up! Subscribing now :-)
I'm extremely glad that you liked the video that much and that you think I did a good job :)
This video was really interesting and as a finn i gotta praise your pronounciation of Finnish words👍🏻. Also fun fact, during the Civil war, my hometown of Seinäjoki acted as the main military and political hub of the white guard from 27.1.1918 to late March same year.
PS: You earned a subscription
Other people: In Finland are cold
People from Finland: No? Here isnt cold!?
At least the Soviets acknowledged Finland's existence.
@@eemil.894 Just a reference to the "Finland doesn't exist" memes. :)
Soviets dont exist
The war of Finland's real motive was the land embargo enforced by Napoleon against the Brits. All but the Swedes agreed to it, so Napoleon ordered his then ally Russia to attack Sweden to force it to stop the trade to Britain. Russia did this, but decided to take the entirety of Finland, since Russia knew the alliance with Napoleon was just temporary, and if Napoleon managed to convince Sweden to join it's attack of Russia, Finland would serve as a buffer for Russia.
This youtuber got so many things wrong and it's annoying that people just takes what he says for granted.
Great video overall! I'd love to have seen more about the 1500s and Gustav the first, he truly was an instrumental part in shaping the path Sweden and especially Finland were heading towards, with the laws, protestant faith and a lot of other stuff. Also you really should've mentioned the first and second oppression periods, 1st being from 1899 to 1905 and 1908 to 1917 which lead to a lot of national spirit and will to leave the empire. Lastly as a side note you could've mentioned some of the great people of the 19th century Finland since that period is regarded as the golden age of Finnish art and literature and a lot of the nationalistic spirit was built up during that period.
Nothing that was in the video pops out at me as wrong, but I still would've loved to see these things added. Anyway, love that you made the video, thank you a lot!
03:56 I'm pretty sure it's wrong to call it Swedish occupation. The complete land, or in the early days some parts of, what is the sovereign state of Finland today was simply part of Sweden from appr. 1150 to 1809. The country was called Sweden and it included these lands, it was not Sweden-Finland (sort of like Denmark-Norway) and there was no political union of any two states called Sweden and Finland etc., it was simply Sweden (although the kingdom of course included Finnish people). If anything Sweden colonised Finland in the early days and made it part of the country, but it wasn't a military/belligerent occupation.
Finland have been occupied by Russia during this time (as part of Sweden) for brief periods, and Åland was occupied briefly by UK and France during the Crimean war etc.
@NäköKulmaPulma Well, Finnish-speaking areas were part of the Swedish Empire so it makes sense that they played their part. I would like to see your source for "mostly", because I don't think that's true. On wikipedia it says slightly less than half for the 30 years war, six Swedish companies and four Finnish. The Empire relied on many foreign soldiers, which might mean from places not part of Sweden unlike Finland, such as a lot of Germans (although some small northern parts of Germany were Swedish at the time).
By the way, no need to "thank" a regular Swede like me. A regular Swede in those days had more in common with regular Finnish-speaking people than with a Swedish king. Guess who wanted the wars, the regular folks or a few kings and nobility men?
As a Finnish history nerd ( for what it's worth ) ,I have to say : Well done !
The humour here is spot on and there is no blatant over-simplifications
I could spot no factual errors ( edit : except for the club war ) and pretty much all the Finnish history with it's most defining moments and developement as an independent state was covered really well.
Perhaps there could have been a mention of Scandinavian Bronze age ( c. 1700-500 BC ) and more details about the developement of Finnish society under Russian rule ( 1812-1917 ) and the role of the Fennoman movement in shaping the country. And maybe also about the political turmoil and painful political reconciliations of the Interwar years ( 1918 - 1939 ).
But that's actually all worth of nit-picking about your video here. And I like to nit-pick a lot, when it comes to history.
Excellent work ! Liked and subscribed !
and велики поздрав to you ! ( You are Serbian, right ? )
Thank you very much mate, it means really a lot to get confirmation from a Finn himself and especially from someone who is interested in his country's history. Really motivates me, I'll give my best in the future too 😊
The Club War was quite factually wrong.
Was about to get very triggered and ready to let you know when Finland was called a Scandinavian country, but that solved itself.
The music is on point 💯
Wonder who helped with the choiceee 😇
I see someone has been playing EU4 :D
Request: Next Do the History of Poland please
Следеће, молим вас, историју Пољске.
Następnie proszę o historię Polski. :)
Will be on my list :)
Serbian Mapping Hvala, Dzieki, Thank you mate
you might have forgotten one thing: finns school system is so much better than us school systems. 1: we have healthy school food 2: we have free school food. 3: people have anought food and money. so yeah
True
I was recently thinking about your posts and now this... Thanks daddy
That's a bit...
@@sgp7931 yes
i am from finland and i really didn't know that uk decleared war against us. i believe we never learned about that in school at least i don't remember and history was one of my favorite subjects specially ww2
@@sense8151 oon kuunnellu historia on yks lempi aineista ja todistuksessa on aina ollu 10 mutta ei mitää muistikuvaa että meille ois siitä kerrottu
Meille kerrottiin jo yläasteella ja lukiossakin moneen otteeseen. Ehkä opet ei kokeneet sitä tärkeäksi kun mitään virallisia sotatoimia ei käyty.
@Nationalistic FINN no siis ku oltii natsien kaa ni uk tietenki julisti sodan suomee vastaa
Fun fact : During WW2 Finland was first friendly with the axis powers who helped them during the continuation war and the they allied with the allied forces to push the axis powers out of lapland.
When you think about it. We technicly stabed them in the back. Witch would explain why they burned the houses on Lapland down. Before they where pushed back to Norway.
Finland's political manouvering still spared the country from the catastrophy that befell on Eastern Europe.
We werent allied with Soviets.
We were forced to attack Germany after defeat in Continuation war.
You forgot the Winter War, during which the soviets were allied with Germany.
Very interesting choice of country to cover. I personally love this country and wish to visit. Baltic States shared a lot throughout the years together with Finland and Estonia. Great content, keep it up!
Thanks mate, I always found Finland very mesmerising and enigmatic, so I thought people ought to know more about this gem
Not really! The Baltic states have a different history beeing vassal state of German whereof Finland shared some 800 years with Sweden and had to mingle with the other Scandinavian countries in unions and wars.
Definitely worth the wait :D
I'm rly glad this channel is back, just got back from binging on the discontinued AHOE from 2 years ago.
Wow amazing you don't make much videos so I sometimes forget that I subscribe u lol.
Dark Souls Countryballs next?
Thanks for the nice video! The audiovisuals were top notch! Having played only EU3 and not EU4, I was thinking to myself how the music sounded kind of familiar. And sure enough, it was because it was composed by the same Andreas Waldetoft. Great music!
A few errors here and there but they've been brought up in other comments already. I was kind of surprised you didn't mention Finland joining the EU in 1995, considering how the last era you addressed was 1945-2020. Oh, and you definitely should've mentioned Nokia! ;D And perhaps the recession that began in 2008, from which we're still kind of recovering, but that wouldn't have ended the video in a very high note, now would it? xD
In years 1100-1200 finns were last pagans of the nordic countries, they were simply asked by crusaders ''sword or cross'' And made ''Perkele'' ( God of Thunder) calling name for the devil.
Most became Christians by choice, not because they were forced. The crusades into Finland weren't crusades against Finns but against Novgorod trying to spread orthodoxy from the east.
@@sebastiantiainen2749 Hahahaahahhahah!!! Christians by choice and peace! What a load of crap. Maybe do some of your own research and not just trust what your pastor tells you...
@@sebastiantiainen2749 Tavastians didn't go down easy during the second crusade tho.
Can we all just agree that christianity destroyed both swedish and finnish cultures and traditions?
Great to see someone paying attention to fact that we went through a civil war.
I'm finnish, but when watched video and noticed how much there has been war and fighting in Finland history. 😯 Even after so many years finally got independence there started civil war. 😕
For southern Finland the winter has been pretty bad, but for north its been snowier than normal
Little-known fact: the earliest writings about Finland go way more Back than The Swedish crusades. In old Norwegian writings Finland is mentioned multiple times, for example about the ancient Finnish kings. It's debatable wether these point to tribes or more or less organized prehistoric society, though it's certain Finland has way richer and deeper history than commonly known. According to some writings, it is believed that the Nordic ancient Kings actually descend from these Finnish kings. Sadly this history is not taught in schools or aknowleged by some of the history people at all, but it still doesn't change the fact that there is A deep uncovered history of us which deserves to be revealed.
Bruh you finns literally try to claim that everything swedish is finnish, from military marches to the rulers of proto sweden
@@samuelskogqvist5565 wouln't claim anything we have no reason for.. i have no idea what marches you mentioned, don't really care about them, but those ancestries are from the old sagas that your ancestors and their cousins have written down.. we finns are not taught any of that, only Church history from conquerors' point of view
Interesting. What are these "Norwegian writings " you refer to?
@@calbackk he is propably talkin about saxo grammaticus and snorri sturlusson's sagas(Fundinn Noregr)atleast and then there were third, it was saga by bardr lumitunturinharju about fornjótr or something.
Old myths...
@@simo8191 Exactly
You forgot to mention the War of Lapland :)
Part of Continuation War
@@tmas47 But since it was against Germany and not the Soviets it deserves a mention. After all, it makes Finland the only country to successfully fight off both the Soviet Union and Germany during WWII (correct me if I'm wrong).
Interesting video. Hello from a new subscriber from Ireland!
Thank you very much for the support and for being here :)
This is fantastic, please make more videos like this. You, my good sir, have earned a new subscriber and member of your community, you deserved it.
Thsnk you very much man, stay tuned 😊
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing! Greetings from Ukraine 🇺🇦🇪🇺
Glad to see your channel is still doing well
Thank you man, thank you for sticking around 😊
Finland doesn't exist
The Finnish Gulf:
I'm bout to end this man's whole career
Well, I mean, it doesnt
Fake ale of al you 🇷🇸🇺🇲🇷🇺🇨🇦🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸
Finish the gulf or the Finnish gulf?
FINLAND EXISTS
PERKELE!!!
Finland exists
To clarify a bit on the cudgel war, the peasants did actually have firearms, they even had a few cannons on at least one occasion, also the war wasn't so much a Finnish rebellion against Sweden but a war born out of mistreatment of the local peasantry by soldiers employed by local nobility, who even in peace time were allowed to collect camp dues, a practice that goes back a long way in Europe. Duke Charles took advantage of the situation and agitated the peasantry who were already riled up by the mistreatment by the local men at arms and they then revolted. Klaus Fleming was another cause, he'd kept an army in Finland in what's called castle camp, which again means the men are usually billeted in local households and the peasantry have to essentially tend to their needs, and what that meant could vary depending on whether the people billeted in your house were abusive twats or decent folk. Needless to say in either case the peasantry would have still not been exactly pleased with the situation as they'd have to provide for the soldiers at a time in which war had already taken a toll on them.
7:50 Helsinki wasn’t yhe capitol that time it had only few hundred people living there. Turku was the capitol of the finland that time. Helsinki became the capital of finland when finland was given to russia in 1809.
Love Finnland,support from Germany🇩🇪❤🇫🇮
Kiitos / Thank you
This was wonderfully executed. You should do more videos like this for nations that like Finland, aren’t very well known
Are we looking at a future series possibly..? Awesome video btw!
If this video does well, why not?
Serbian Mapping We're all looking forward to it!
@@thanksforthe57subs66 Stay tuned ;)
you forgot our 3 day Monachry
and my speeling is shit sorry
Great job, so far one of the most complete and detailed history of Finland 🇫🇮 videos I've ever seen 😃 please, next do Sweden 🇸🇪 😊 (plus a suggestion, lower the volume of the background music, sometimes it covers your voice) 😉
Thank you very much for the support mate, I'm glad you liked it 😊
And thank you for the suggestion, I'll make sure to perfect that nezt time
Why you didnt talk About Hakkapeliitta?
Had to oversimplify and pack everything into 15mins
Because the Hakkapeliittas were just a Swedish cavalry unit in the 1600's who were elevated to the almost mythical level during the 1800's as a part of the Finnish nationalistic awakening. I'm not saying that they weren't brave and good soldier but they were ultimately just a small part of the Swedish war machine.
Mate, independence of Finland started in 1917 when Bolsheviks (commies) came to power in Russian Empire and asked one question to all parts of Empire ''do you guys wanna stay or go'' ?
You gave this info in a stange way...sounded like people of Finland actually said ''fuck you Russia'' and self declared their independence.
Finland became independent only cuz Lenin gave them the choice. That's why Finland was officially recognized by government of RSFSR (USSR from 1922).
Commies had all needed power to destroy and enslave Finland, but Lenin and leninists bolsheviks were not like Stalin and stalinist bolshevik. If not death of Lenin in 1922, the Winter War probably could have never happened.
Also, during Finnish Civil war, ''whites'' and ''reds'' were supported by russians.
Reds were getting help from USSR and whites were getting great help from remaining soldiers and even generals of collapsed Russian Empire who were as badass as it gets.
Don't forget who was a president of Finland after those times - Carl Mannerheim, aka. the guy who was born on lands of Russian Empire, knew russian language, was living in
St. Petersburg and Moscow for huge part of his life, was General of Russian army and etc.
Says heavy "heavy metal" shows Lordi. Is'nt that kinda tame for heavy metal? They are more like hard rock to me which is fine
Still a fine band
Yes but still a great band
I thought that the first mention of Finns was by the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus in 98 AD. He described people the Romans called "Fenni".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenni
The Finnish never rebelled against Sweden it was just small peasant rebellions against high taxes, and Swedish peasants (living in Sweden) also did the same thing a few times.
Well the club war did happen but it was over in one battle.
@@omppusolttu5799 yeah but it wasn't finland rebelling against sweden rather peasants against the king.
Not sure about the facts just clarifying his point
@@tenhoandersson ...
That literaly is a revolution IN finland AGANIST the leader of sweden.
When a 15 minute youtube video teaches more than three 45 minute classes
Why there is people being like " pffft, Finland doesnt exist XDDD"
ehm, ehm..
anteeksi mitä?
Tyhmä meemi vaan
Semmonen tyhäm meemi vaan
*a n t e e k s i k u i n k a?*
The Ice Age !
Because it doesn't exist, just a big lie
That was very well made. keep the videos coming
Thanks man, Ill do my best 😊
The last war sweden fought was with norway, arter they refused swedish rule after the napolianic wars. Not with russia. Why Wuld you say that?
Informative inspiring video
This video misses the Finno-Korean Hyperwar.
Fucc
Never actually happened and Finland is a country and not the Baltic Sea, I know it's a meme but i will probably never get over it.
Great video Serbian Mapping. Thank you!
Finnland wasn't Viking. Vikings=Denmark/Sweden/Norway/Rus
@Draken Kievan Rus was Viking before being Slav
Welcome to Rosala viking center in Hiittinen in Finland.
There were no Finnish Vikings, but there were Russes Vikings. Check out Viking expansion map.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Viking_Expansion.svg/1920px-Viking_Expansion.svg.png
Map showing area of Scandinavian settlement in the eighth (dark red), ninth (red), tenth (orange) centuries. Yellow denotes areas conquered by the Normans in the 11th century. Green denotes areas subjected to Viking raids.
There was no remarkable Viking colonization in Finland, but there certainly was Finnish Vikings.
@@heikkisallinen9012 what famous finnish vikings do you know?
Of course they are the happiest nation on earth! They got the best educational system - no homework ever and you get a freaking sword along with your diploma at graduation! What's not to love!? :D Bloody heck, after everything that poor people have been through, they've definitely earned their happy ratings! :)
And they got one of the best snacks ever - SALMIAKKI!
Oh Finland ...... I'm glad you do, in fact, exist! :)
You could have talked about the russification attempts of 1989-1917. That helps you understand why Finland was so desperate to pull away from Russia.
You forgot Lapland War between Germany and Finland, but really nice video👍
I love these types of vids
Wish u did one about my country, but that will never happen lol
I'm gla you like them :)
What country is it?
@@BalkanOdyssey_ argentina🇦🇷
What a gay country
@@leoliver4288 are you british?
@@leoliver4288 oikees oot
Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮
Lol how cute.. vikings had barely any business here, they try to take over with bad failure ^^
I remember reading an old story of a viking meeting a finish shaman. The viking went depper from the coast to the woods and heard wierd chanting. He followed the chanting and saw an old man just standing in the middle of nowhere. The viking asked the old man for directions for the coast. He got lost. But that old man kept chanting and waved his hands that the trees themselfs started moving like sentient creatures. In fear the viking ran trough the woods and found himself back to his ship and mates on the coast. He swoor after that he would never set his foot on those woods ever again.
I don't know where it was from but it was over 10 years ago. The reason i remember it, is becouse it was a "spooky" tale or myth of this land. And i have hard time finding horror stories of Finland.
@@greeneyedwolfen9866 Back in the days vikings were believing that we had a power of darkness etc. I'm not allowed to confirm that, but nature is for sure our thing. 👀
They didn't come to Finland because they had no reason to.
Sebastian Tiainen “no reason to” but they explored and traveled all across europe and the world looking for land and people to exploit, including neighboring russia and baltic countries, but they for ”some reason” decided to leave this geographically identical land right next to them alone.. or maybe there was something keeping them away, the land of ancient shamanistic tribes with magical powers and fierce warrior giants who kept intruders at bay, little do finns know that even the vikings themselves wrote down about the kings of finland/kvenland from which all vikings descend from, and see the level of respect they had towards us in icelandic sagas where they spoke most highly about us while disrespecting the swedes as inferior people
@@0mgskillz96 I remember someone saying that the norse believed the finns worshipped evil spirits
Nobody else noticed that rice hat? Finns weren't considered "white" before the WW2. In the USA finns were called "china swedes","roundheads" and "finlander" (latter was as heavy racial slur back in a day, as n-word). Big reason for the hate was the fact that finns were active in labour unions. Mine owners wrote petition to Ellis Island officials to not let finns immigrate because of that. Things changed, for it was benefical to Allies of WW2 (especially to Russia) to highlight the connection between Finland and Germany. Finns also took distance to "communist activities" because they hated the Soviet Union, meaning less activism in labour unions in the US.
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@@BalkanOdyssey_ That was my reaction too, when I found out. I thought you knew since there was that rice hat. Finns not being white was (is) based on the thought that finns are "mongols" (or "china swedes") . There's still people (especially in Sweden) who think that.
@@mirthkos Jätkä sä oot tainnu olla tosi kännis kun kommentoit!
Dude you must have been really drunk when you commented!
@Snowstorm read the articles I linked under my comment a year ago.