Hahah I know... the signs of moving!

Vilppu K Finland broke free (and gained total independency) from Russian Empire the exact same time the soviets had a war against the Prussian ruling elite. It Was a long and horrible civil war where aristocrats, the ruling family and all the loyal people to them fought against the loyal people for soviet leaders (Brohnstein [trotsky] Lenin, Stalin etc). The war of Whites (Russian Empire loyalists) against reds (soviet leader loyalists) was a war that was fought inside Finland faster than in Russian territory and with different outcome. Whites won in Finland and while the war was still ongoing in Russia, Finland was able (and had big pair of balls) to declare independency because Russian empire was losing The war and was unable to stop Finland from leaving. This white against red war was repeated in Finland with same outcome and one of the Royal guards of the prussian ruling family, became a Finnish warhero and eventually The leader of the winterwar (Mannerheim). Sorry for typos, Capital letters and stuff like that. My phone is trying to correct me in every turn... We were not part of soviets but Finland used soviets and turmoil to gain independency. Before that, Finnish people were last european people who left Hunter gatherer lifestyle behind. Finnish people were also last ones to forgot their past and built this cristiendom-cult-style civilisation. This happened right after our independency. We were people of the forest all along but this chanced at that time.

That's just revisionist history. The truth is that we got bored of Sweden, gave them independence and conquered Russia so we can get a border with Japan, for obvious reasons. But that turned out to be a great hassle, so we graciously gave Russia their independence back.

Not really. Suomi includes all of those. The correct way is to list a things that Suomi has, that we are proud off and keep us going.

I am! 😁😁

Mr Sloth thank you for educating

I agree, no one these days thinks about Sibelius

Maybe both are correct answers to the question, but "Sauna, sisu & Sibelius" is an old saying and "Sisu, Suomi & sauna" is not.

There's an old Kivikasvot song (Tankerous love - that's right: rally-English song from the 70's) where they sing "Sipelius, sauna ja sisu, it's mate in Finland!". And that's what Finland is known about for a very long time besides heavy drinking of Koskenkorva of course 😁. But yes, that's obviously is a bit outdated definition.

I miss the old 100 mark bill, Sibelius. Other than that, I feel not many of our populace pay huge attention to him anymore. This is a heavy metal nation over classical after all.

here is video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mb-pnaeSueC4mX0.html

When someone moves to America all day they just hear "AMERIC F*** YEAH" ringing through the streets and beer bottles everywhere.

There's a difference between patriotism and (extreme) nationalism. I hope we as Finns are still patriots.

It might be on par, but finnish patriots arent flag waving loudmouths for the most part, except after a few beers. Maybe it's the same

Niko ei se aina merkitse sitä

Mrcosmical54 Oikeen suomalaisen merkki vaan😂

Mä en ainakaan tuu koskaan juomaan alkoholia

Niinhän ne monet sanoo, mutta ihan varmasti tulet.

I've never eaten a sausage in the sauna... is that a thing?!

The guy who wrote it was a Swedish-speaking Finn, so yeah, it's always been Finnish, it just had Swedish lyrics first before it was translated. Not the same case as the British national anthem.

White Man's Burden Did u get offended or something😂

What did he write? I wanna know the gossip

Hei, voitko tarkentaa, minkä virheen tein? Otan mielelläni vastaan asiallista palautetta.

@melodymoonchild "swedish" in topis comment doesnt refer to the nationality, but the language

Thanks! :D

Maltti ja Valtti saatana

radikaali -_-

Good to know lol

Damn. I thought that was Battery Energy Drink.

Sdesser, me too. Battery keeps you going. 😁

"When Finland was lost to the Soviet Union" refers to the time when Sweden lost the region of Finland to Russia nearly 300 years ago.

Yes, that is exactly my point, yet it happend exactly 209 years ago. But it was not the Soviet Union that took Finland but rather the Tsarist Russian Empire. That happened as a result of the Finnish war 1808-1809. The Soviet Union did not exist until the 1910's.

I looked it up after this... I know it as Åland but now I know the Finnish name for it! :D

It's not actually one single island though. Also it's west, not left.

"huge" yeah sure lmao

Oh yeah that huge ass island that could be it's own country? lmaoo

Jadeew For an island its a big one.

Turku IS Abo in Swedish !

hahaha it would

Same! Was kind of unsure about the 9th question though. You don't hear Sibelius mentioned that much nowadays.

Sanni same! 10/10

Indeed. It was 10/10 or moving out of Finland.

Sanni same, 10/10. But I'm from Finland too so... yeah :D

mikrokupu No Its not-_-

Derinma Mutta se on vanha sanonta

Sibelius is awesome, though the mere mention of his name has Karelia suite - Alla marcia earworm playing in my head.

Kids these days may have forgotten old sayings, but otherwise this test is completely trivial for any Finn.

Never heard of Sibelius ? Have You Heard of SANDSTORM by Ville Valo ? Look on KZfaq !

Thank you! :)

please no anime gays in finland, so leave please yomigaeru

Anime isn't gay, Anime is japanese cartoon. So we are looking back to our childhood. If you don't like it MAKE IT YOUR OWN. You can ignore this our country. I'm not gay Vic the 12 year old

oosom.