How Finland stayed under Russian control long after the Cold War

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1. Alpo Rusi, who served as chief foreign policy adviser to President Ahtisaari during the Nineties, alleges that some of his most powerful colleagues were compromised by the Kremlin’s networks.

   There was a time when this sort of meddling in Finnish affairs was routine. At the end of the Second World War, Helsinki only secured the country’s independence by granting Moscow a significant degree of control over its policies, including KGB handlers assigned to every significant figure in public life.

   This period of vigilantly enforced neutrality from 1945 to 1991 has often been called the era of “Finlandisation”, before Nordic state notionally broke free of the Kremlin’s sphere of influence and joined the European Union

2. Being an ally to Nazis has consequences

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