History of Finland (Animated) 

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

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 . . .

😂

Right! this is cold crapland!🥶

🅱️ERSE

**Silent sadness noice**

There is very much snow look outside or not

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

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

Keaper The tribal period itself is 1000 years long and had many interesting phases. Finns arrived in Finland around 100ad.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Sulla on vaan yks like scouppi aika ihmeellistä👍😂

Moi scouppi

Joku paikka missä scouppia kaikki ei tunne

Moi scouppi

Säki tääl:D

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.

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

that would have been pretty cool

but what if jean sibelius copyright claimed him

@@akioja1112 the copyright actually goes out in 3 years

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RaPQYCvVN6k.html

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

@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?

@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.

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.

@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.

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

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

Im from uruguay and i know that you are gay

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?

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.

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!

Thank you man, it really means a lot 😊

@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...

I'm extremely glad that you liked the video that much and that you think I did a good job :)

@@eemil.894 Just a reference to the "Finland doesn't exist" memes. :)

Soviets dont exist

Wonder who helped with the choiceee 😇

I see someone has been playing EU4 :D

That's a bit...

@@sgp7931 yes

Thsnk you very much man, stay tuned 😊

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 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!

​@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?

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-L8rGyWSC0O4.html

Trapped In A Bagel We took Norway after we lost you though

@@finnishwehraboo8377 😆😆

@@grateug6887" You" didn't "take" Norway - it was given. Google it.

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.

Will be on my list :)

Serbian Mapping Hvala, Dzieki, Thank you mate

Thank you man, thank you for sticking around 😊

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.

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.

Thanks man, Ill do my best 😊

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.

Thank you very much for the support and for being here :)

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

If this video does well, why not?

Serbian Mapping We're all looking forward to it!

@@thanksforthe57subs66 Stay tuned ;)

Thank you 🙌

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".

@@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

Im really glad you enjoyed the video :) Ill see what I can do in the future

Hvala :)

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).

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.

Thanks man :) No I unfortunately won't, I'll be concentrating on this more serious video format

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.

This youtuber got so many things wrong and it's annoying that people just takes what he says for granted.

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

Thank you!

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?

Hey

Thank you

and my speeling is shit sorry

Well, I mean, it doesnt

Fake ale of al you 🇷🇸🇺🇲🇷🇺🇨🇦🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸🇷🇸

Finish the gulf or the Finnish gulf?

FINLAND EXISTS

PERKELE!!! Finland exists

The music does it's work doesn't it :D

@@BalkanOdyssey_ the other parts of the video aren't hurting either.

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Thank you man.

Thank you man. Romania will be on my list when I start making videos of 10min histories of countries :)

I'm gla you like them :) What country is it?

@@BalkanOdyssey_ argentina🇦🇷

What a gay country

@@leoliver4288 are you british?

@@leoliver4288 oikees oot

Thank you man, means a lot

Still a fine band

Yes but still a great band