Re: Amazing
"the Finns were colonised first by the Swedes and later by the Russians after the 1809 war.".
That is rather silly, then again trying to tell the history of one country in one sentence is not possible.
The "colonisation" by the Swedes happened when there was no Finland and hardly no Sweden either.
It was more about Christianity moving north and north east in Europe.
Sweden had some 40 wars with both Norway and Denmark and a few with Russia but none with Finland.
Nor was the Russian much of an colonisation either in 1809.
Finland become Finland in 1809 with, for the first time, borders both with Sweden and Russia and a government.
But the Russians did loot the country much earlier, for instance, as described here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjFglWuwn6g&t=119s
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