As an American of Finnish descent, I concur with what clauscph said. [If anything, any people living in what is now Finland were probably ~victims~ of the Vikings a millenium ago.] And, while I’m still on my soapbox, I might also point out that Vikings did ~not~ wear horned helmets, either.
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Finnish, Estonian (which admittedly is close to Finnish) and Hungarian are all Uralic languages, and not Indo-European languages. And Hungary, as least, has been kinda sorta important in European History.
Finland is a great country, with some wonderful socialist history, but they are just as capable of fascist tendencies as the Swedes, French, Americans, English, Austrians, Italians, Serbs, Spanish, Swiss, Danish, Greeks, Slovakians, Poles, …
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Serbs are number 1…
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Finland were allied with Nazi-Germany against Stalin’s Russia. They first had their own “Winter-war” with Russia which ended in an armistice, which Finland then broke, “The Continuation War”, when Nazi-Germany attacked Russia.
This is not well-known https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War-responsibility_trials_in_Finland
Finland had had some rather nasty Red-White fighting after gaining Nationhood Dec.6, 1918, which left deep wounds, and a lot of Finnish history and the choices people made politiically requires an understanding of this background.
I known at bit of the history of Finland, and I know that it´s … complicated. My parents had a ¨Save the Children¨ Finnish foster daughter after the war, and we are still close. Her father fought in the wars.
Oh, don´t you remember the last time we had that discussion on this site? You wanna get that going again? 
Don’t make me start a typin’!!!
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Huh. Didn’t know that about Estonian and Hungarian.
Fun Facts:
The Finnish national anthem “Maamme” (Eng: “Our land”, Swed. “Vårt Land”) is also the national anthem of Estonia and can be sung in three languages: Finnish, Swedish and Estonian. In mixed language company, you sing in the language of your choice.
Tallinn’s name might be derived from “Tanska Linna”, “the Danish Castle” and, according to Danish Legend, the Danish flag (also the coat of arms for Tallinn) fell from the sky during a battle near current Tallinn, June 15, 1219.
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A simple mnemonic device to remember the Uralic languages in Europe: When I Finnish getting Estonia-d, I am Hungary.
You´re welcome!
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Tallinn is wonderful city to visit. Great ‘Old Town’, affordable. I loved my 3 days there…
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