A travel in Finland recent history

The recent history in Finland starts in 19th Century when nationalism emerged. This nationalism was go by the highly distinctive language, culture, mythology and folklore. In 1917 was declared Finland Independence. After that a civil war between two sides desvastated Finland. This two "sides" were the Read Guards and the White Guards. The first one were paramilitary units of the labour movement on the contrary, the White Guards were completely opposite to the comunism way of thinking of the Red army. 

The White ones were victorious. After the internal affairs stabilized, they build good relationship with Sweden and Britain but there were a lot of tension with Soviet Union. In the Second World War Finland defended against Soviet Union. Finally, they ended ceding karelia and other parts to Soviet Union.

In the latter half of its independent history. The Country expanded the welfare state along his citizens also, Finland joined the European Union in 1995, and replaced the Finnish markka with the euro in 2002.
Here there is a great video to understand recent history in Finland ↩



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