People of Suomi Cultural Roots

Small Beginnings For A Nordic People

People of Suomi cultural roots have a long history, languages do not come out of a vacuum, but rather from individual peoples good will, intellect, consciousness, imagination, will, memory, emotions and faith in the Creator of Life.

From The Nemesis Book by author Victor Leinonen.

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“The recent studies have rejected the old theories that the Baltic Finns had come to the shores of the region in waves of migrations in the early part of the first century, from east to south-east. Results of the research had revealed that the North-European people were of Finn stock (Kanta Suomalainen). Not to be confused with the Finn-Ukraine stock (kantasuomlais-Ugrilaista), as they also moved to the north as the Indo-European people groups became to settle there. They also have relatively recent history, integrated with the Indo-European Nations. Similarly, the Baltic Finn tribes and their Nationality are a representation of the local indigenous people of the Baltic Sea, in the same way as the Sami people represent the Indigenous people who found their habitation environment in the south and the far north. The Baltic Sea Finns, the Ingria land people (Inkeriläiset) also have roots that go far back in history.

(Saressalo, 2000) Lassi Saressalo:

IMPERIAL GRAND DUCHIES OF FINLAND 1581

An extended Southwest Finland was made a titular grand duchy in 1581, when King John III of Sweden, who as a prince had been the Duke of Finland (1556–1561/63), extended the list of subsidiary titles of the Kings of Sweden considerably. The new title Grand Duke of Finland did not result in any Finnish autonomy, as Finland was an integrated part of the Kingdom of Sweden with full parliamentary representation for its counties.
(Sweden, Grand Duchy of Finland)

FINNISH WAR 1808

“The Finnish War fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from February 1808 to September 1809. As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden established as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire.
(Sweden, Finnish War, 2018.”

EMPEROR NICHOLAS II

Nicholas II (1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, ruling from 1 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. The people of the Russian revolution rejected their Monarchy system.
(Russia, Nicholas II of Russia, 2018)

THE PEOPLE FINLAND IN THE IMPERIAL POWER VICE

“The people of Finland grew up on land, located between a rock and a hard place. The two Imperial Superpowers were Sweden on West side of the Bothnia Sea, and Russia on the East side of Lake Ladoga and the Neva River. Both Imperial superpowers have influenced, intimidated, invaded, educated and betrayed trust with the people and the government of Finland over the last 500 years. These two-imperial superpowers were not equal; they have a very different history, cultural values, and national identity.”

“The two Imperial superpowers also had different ambitions, inclinations, prejudices, dispositions, and motives in invading the people of the Nordic countries.
It is refreshing to think how Sweden has managed to stay within their national skin. The Soviet Union was not able to stay within their Russian national skin, almost like a giant snake eating up others outside their borders, and always restless, and never satisfied or settled. The ability to stay within one’s skin takes self-control. There has to be the ability to see some good in what they have. They have acquired vast natural resources, mostly from indigenous peoples lands. What is Moscow if all the indigenous people like Sami people of the Kola Peninsula and the Sami people of Siberia and further East were given their original ancestral lands back?”

It is reasonable to say that those that have much should be the most hospitable and generous. The USSR was never generous, was never hospitable to their neighbors. They caused unimaginable suffering and heartache for millions of people that lost their parents, husbands, wives, and children to labor camps and the persecution of political prisoners.

“The Imperial powers did not always just come randomly or impulsively to the territory of the Finnish people. They came after calculated strategic war planning was complete. The Imperial Russian leaders had planned far in advance for their territorial, material or political ends. At other times the Superpower leaders were driven by personal ambition, impulsions, and fantasies as dictators do. The superpowers have always included the use of military force, once the military force is sufficiently built up and intimidating, then right to human nature they exploit that intimidation and make outrageous demands for territory or other material wealth. If the demands are not met, then they keep going on rolling destruction, which flattens whatever that is sticking up in their way to be flattened. It is sinister and ruthless, exploitation, history of full of such exploits committed by imperial superpowers.”

THE GOOD NEWS

It was through Sweden that the Good News Gospel came to Finland as early as 1150’s.
The First Swedish Crusade is said to have taken place with a military expedition, around 1150. It was the first attempt of Sweden to convert Finnish pagan cultural to Christianity. According to the legend, it was by King Eric IX of Sweden with an English bishop by the name of Henry of Uppsala, who also remained in Finland, but killed by a pagan Finn.