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Well Finland has loads of cottages, and being such a large land you would feel like you were in some fara way holiday zones. With so many lakes that Finland has I mean you can see on a map, you may feel like you are Shrek, but you will be living in great luxury at times, Finland also has many many saunas, and pools. There are also Villas and Mansions and apartments in Finland, but it has 10s of thousands of cottages.
According to archaeological evidence, the area now composing Finland was first settled around 8500 BCE during the Stone Age as the ice shield of the last ice age receded. The earliest people were hunter-gatherers, living primarily off what the tundra and sea could offer. Pottery is known from around 5300 BCE (see Comb Ceramic Culture).The arrival of the Battle Axe culture (or Cord-Ceramic Culture) in southern coastal Finland around 3200 BCE may have coincided with the start of agriculture. However, the earliest certain records of agriculture are from the late third millennium BCE. Even with the introduction of agriculture, hunting and fishing continued to be important parts of the subsistence economy, especially in the northern and eastern parts of the country.
The Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) and Iron Age (500 BCE–1200 CE) were characterised by extensive contacts with other cultures in the Fennoscandian and Baltic regions. There is no consensus on when Finno-Ugric languages and Indo-European languages were first spoken in the area of contemporary Finland.
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The first verifiable written documents appeared in the twelfth century.
Swedish era
Sweden established its official rule of Finland in the 13th century by the crown. Swedish became the dominant language of the nobility, administration and education; Finnish was chiefly a language for the peasantry, clergy and local courts in predominantly Finnish-speaking areas. The Bishop of Turku was usually the most important person in Finland during the Catholic era.
The Middle Ages ended with the Reformation when the Finns gradually converted to Lutheranism. In the 16th century, Mikael Agricola published the first written works in Finnish. The first university in Finland, The Royal Academy of Turku, was established in 1640. In the 18th century, wars between Sweden and Russia led to occupation of Finland twice by Russian forces, known to the Finns as the Greater Wrath (1714–1721) and the Lesser Wrath (1742–1743). By this time "Finland" was the predominant term for the whole area from the Gulf of Bothnia to the Russian border.
On March 29, 1809, after being conquered by the armies of Alexander I of Russia in the Finnish War, Finland became an autonomous Grand Duchy in the Russian Empire until the end of 1917. There had been many famines in the Swedish era, but in the Russian era there was too, indeed 10 % of the population, probabably 100000 people died in a 1860s famine. During the Russian era, the Finnish language started to gain recognition, first probably to sever the cultural and emotional ties with Sweden and thereafter, from the 1860s onwards, as a result of a strong nationalism, known as the Fennoman movement. Milestones included the publication of what would become Finland's national epic, the Kalevala, in 1835; and the Finnish language achieving equal legal status with Swedish in 1892.
Despite the Finnish famine of 1866-1868, in which about 15 percent of the population died, political and economic development was rapid from the 1860s onwards.
In 1906, universal suffrage was adopted in the Grand Duchy of Finland, the second country in the world where this happened. However, the relationship between the Grand Duchy and the Russian Empire soured when the Russian government made moves to restrict Finnish autonomy. For example, the universal suffrage was, in practice, virtually meaningless, since the emperor did not approve any of the laws adopted by the Finnish parliament. Desire for independence gained ground, first among radical nationalists and socialists.
Civil War (1917–1918) and early independence
Main articles: Finland's declaration of independence and Finnish Civil War
On December 6, 1917, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Finland declared its independence, which was approved by Bolshevist Russia. Duruing this civil war,
In 1918, the country experienced a brief but bitter Civil War that affected domestic politics for many decades afterwards. The Civil War was fought between "the Whites", who were supported by Imperial Germany, and "the Reds", supported by Bolshevist Russia. The Reds consisted mostly of propertyless rural and industrial workers who, despite universal suffrage in 1906, felt that they lacked political influence. The White forces were mostly made up of bourgeoisie and wealthy peasantry, politically to the right. Eventually, the Whites overcame the Reds. The deep social and political enmity between the Reds and Whites remained. The civil war and activist expeditions (see Heimosodat) to the Soviet Union strained eastern relations.
After a brief flirtation with monarchy, Finland became a presidential republic, with Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg elected as its first president in 1919. The Finnish–Russian border was determined by the Treaty of Tartu in 1920, largely following the historic border but granting Pechenga (Finnish: Petsamo) and its Barents Sea harbour to Finland. Finnish democracy survived the upsurge of the extreme rightist Lapua Movement and Great Depression in the early '30s. However, legislators tended to be anti-communist and the relationship between Finland and the Soviet Union was tense.
In 1917 the population was
3 million. About 70% of workers were occupied in agriculture and 10% in industry.
Finland during World War II
In the 1930s Fascists killed some Left wingers in Finland
During World War II, Finland fought the Soviet Union
twice: in the Winter War of 1939–40 after the Soviet Union had attacked Finland
and in the Continuation War of 1941–44, following Operation Barbarossa in
which Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Following German losses on the Eastern
Front and the subsequent Soviet advance, Finland was forced to make peace with
the Soviet Union. This was followed by the Lapland War of 1944–45, when Finland
forced the Germans out of northern Finland.
The treaties signed in 1947 and 1948 with the Soviet Union included Finnish obligations, restraints, and reparations as well as further Finnish territorial concessions (cf. the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940). Finland ceded most of Finnish Karelia, Salla, and Pechenga, which amounted to ten percent of its land area and twenty percent of its industrial capacity. Some 400,000 evacuees, mainly women and children, fled these areas. Establishing trade with the Western powers, such as the United Kingdom, and the reparations to the Soviet Union caused Finland to transform itself from a primarily agrarian economy to an industrialised one. Even after the reparations had been paid off, Finland continued to trade with the Soviet Union in the framework of bilateral trade.
Cold war
In 1950 a half of the workers was occupied in agriculture and a third lived in urban towns. The new jobs in manufacturing, services and trade quickly attracted people towns. Average number of births per woman declined from 3.5 in 1947 to 1.5 in 1973. The economy didn't generate jobs fast enough and hundreds of thousands emigrated to the more industrialized Sweden, migration peaking in 1969 and 1970. This mass migration is largely the reason why 4.7 percent of Sweden's population speak Finnish today.
Officially claiming to be neutral, Finland lay in the grey zone between the Western countries and the Soviet Union. The "YYA Treaty" (Finno-Soviet Pact of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance) gave the Soviet Union some leverage in Finnish domestic politics. This was extensively exploited by President Urho Kekkonen against his opponents. He maintained an effective monopoly on Soviet relations, which gave him a status of "only choice for president". There was also a tendency of self-censorship regarding Finno-Soviet relations. This phenomenon was given the name "Finlandisation" by the German press (fi. suomettuminen). When Finlandisation was not enough, direct censorship was used, including in 1700 books and many movies, and asylym-seeking defectors were returned to be killed by the Soviet Union. Soviets created and financed anti-Western and pro-Soviet youth movements, and their former members have still a lot power. Soviet intelligence services sometimes used their contacts to install personnel in the administration, mass media, academia, political parties and trade unions. Politicization was widespread and public sector workers were often dependent on having the correct political party membership.
However, Finland maintained a democratic government and a market economy unlike most other countries bordering the Soviet Union. Property rights were strong. After flirting with protectionism, Finland made a free trade agreement with the European Community in 1973. Local education market expanded and an increasing number of Finns also went to have education in the United States or Western Europe, bringing back advanced skills. In the beginning of the 1970s, Finland's GDP per capita reached the level of Japan and the UK.
In 1991 Finland fell into a Great Depression-magnitude depression caused by combination economic overheating, depressed Western, Soviet and local markets, and disappearance of Soviet barter system. Stock market and housing prices declined by 50 percent. The growth in the 1980s was based on debt, and when the defaults began rolling in, an avalanche effect increased the unemployment from a virtual full employment to one fifth of the workforce. The crisis was amplified by trade unions' initial opposition against any reforms. Politicians struggled to cut spending and the public debt doubled. After devaluations the depression bottomed out in 1993.
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Finnish rebels are independent
in 1917,
There is a famine, but the big killer is that of the Left, right
fight,
They kill 34000, mostly in German monarchist prisons,
Infact a
very small number were killed in any other way,
It is felt 1000 died in
a leftist revolt, in battles, etc., then more in a rightist revolt,
Its said
8380 reds were executed, 11,000 died in prisons their prisons,
The rest of
the victims were mostly reds in battled, there, & a small amount in famine,
The
leftist killed 1000 in massacres at most,
Maybe obeying that ideal, of seeing
that evil, want evil,
Try & make the world evil for them,
60000 Lakes
In Finland, in the 1590s, there was a revolt,
In which 3000 Fins
were massacred in a peasants revolt,
Well maybe only a high 100s were actually
massacred,
But royals & local soldiers, who were stealing people's stuff,
Slaughtered
rebellious peasants after surrendering,
And helped the king recruit more for
the Swedes,
Some troops coming to get recruits had raped & pillaged, in
evil,
You could say most were massacred in some estimates,
Danes then
massacre a town's 6000 of 8000, in 1611, & 300 others,
Ruining Kalmar,
the second largest Swedish town,
Plus Norwegians massacre 100 Scots of mercenaries,
The mercenaries were fighting for the Danes,
And had helped them, possibly
in their massacres too,
And Swedes massacre some 10s of Danish civilians
Sweden
expands, as of having no serfdom,
So was free, & has relatively huge growth,
In 1771, Sweden saw a king's coup, still saw late-18thC famine,
They
saw small social reform, which was not pleasing the poor enough,
To get any
support of note,
It was a angry monarchist backlash claiming the country was
collapsing,
Passing some liberal laws, but ineffectual ones, & actually
regressive,
And then the regime, was struck by the 1788-90 Rus war,
Where
1000s die,
Plus 10000 of Finland,
Before the people had become among Earth's
richest,
Swede coups ally both, that cover streets,
A Swede famine from
1808-11, fell LE 7 years, & kills 57000,
Plus 10,000 in the 1800s, earlier
than that,
1/2 in it, 1/2 Finland,
And double that in 1772-3, & many
in the 1720s,
& many 10s, of thousands, in plagues of the C,
Never
mind pox, or such,
The worst famine, in Swedish recent history was that of
the 1649, era,
When people were in heaps, on the road,
And as I said,
earlier, the 1690s, & also 1708-09 era,
I suspect 10,000 died in the 1790s
famines too,
Plus 12/22,000Norway,
In their disasters, from the alliances
& turns of the war & it's costs, in the 1800s,
Probably the top number,
plus 13000 in the period too 1820s,
In 1810, Swedes & Russians turn V France,
a key move, in their coups,
Brits shelling, sees 2000die in Denmark, in 1807,
Finland
saw a 1867 famine,
Where the population falls 10%, so 100000, entirely by death,
One
in the 30s kills 10000,
Where many of the Russian elite felt charity is counter
productive,
2/10,000 in the rest of the C,
Where increasingly landless
peasants, can't buy land,
& are so in trouble, growing their rye,
A
plant far pushier even than barley, so emigration to America increased,
In
the 1830s famine some were flogged, for refusing lord's orders,
And many jailed,
& a few riots,
And also 10s, jailed, for trying to spread religion,
With
some sent to Siberia for riots,
With serfs or peasants flogged, for small crimes,
& often executed,
With some censorship, even of this semi-devolved state,
And
in the era, there was huge growth in Finnish nationalism,
& a decrease
in some, often,
But not as many death as some lands, in peasants revolts,
If only a few, at most, for political reasons, here,
FGinland also had
quite big poverty in the era beforethe 20th Century
some say 130,000 Sharecroppers
were freed by 1930s, not offcially that but in 1880-1930s, social improvement
as of left wing ideas freed people in essentially sharecroopperlike ways, allthough
offcially it had no serfdom, ofr sharecropping,
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