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Originally Posted by Exeter
I don't really think it has to do with East-Baltid. I think a lot is nurture. Don't Karelians have more influence from Russians?
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Well the geographic realities means that they've always been influenced more from the east than other parts of Finland, yes.
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We did steer off-topic earlier in the thread. Finns and Estonians turn threads about Russians into something about them.
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Well this thread was about the leader of the Russian Federation blaming the peoples of the Baltic countries for Nazism. So I guess Estonians, and Finns who by and large sympathize with them, perceive that this topic does indeed touch upon the mutual relations with Russians and themselves.