Just a little clear-up, calling Finland socialist is a bit of an overstatement. Politically we're a parliamentary republic with a "ceremonial" president. The Nordic model, which is commonly called socialist for some reason, combines, on a national level, free market capitalism with ideas of welfare state and collective bargaining. Just because our QOL is high and public healthcare exists doesn't mean we're a Marxist society or something.
The Nordic model (also called Nordic capitalism or Nordic social democracy). Although there are significant differences among the Nordic countries, they all share some common traits.
TKWeckroth True. There's a stark difference between a socialist state and a social democracy. Finland and other Nordics are completely capitalist as systems (perhaps increasingly so) but provide a pretty good welfare, free education, and have large public sectors, funded by high taxes. It seems to work pretty well.
Compared to Sweden, we're very strict when it comes to refugees. Our problems aren't as big as big as Sweden's because we haven't let too many inside our borders. It's a political issue on which we can't seem to agree on.
"Which means the land of lakes" According to whom? The ethymology of the word "Suomi" is unclear, but definitely it has nothing to do with the Finnish word for "lake", which is "järvi".
@@EneSacarification so someone being Finnish and knowing Finnish language telling you a Finnish word does not mean the thing a foreigner told you it means, is not enough proof to you?
@@EneSacarification to your first question, his name is in Finnish and could be a surname, and everything he says is linguistically correct. To your second, the video phrases it as if it meant that in the modern language, which it certainly does not. In addition, you think we haven't wondered where our country's got it's name from? There are loads of studies and debate and the fact is that there's no definite proof about any particular explanation, only educated guesswork. We go through a couple of different possibilities in school as well. Still, none of the theories I've read have ever linked the name to lakes, only swamps or just "land" in general.
@@antonwallin7122 it doesn't necessarily. There is no definitive evidence of that and historians do not have an agreement as of yet. That explanation is very popular because it sounds logical in modern language but to my understanding it's just as (un)likely as the other explanations
For instance, queen Magaret did not marry the (extremely unpopular (among the nobles)) king of Sweden she defeated him also, her heir was her nephew not her adopted son.
@@lassemanninen4750 Social democracy has a firm capitalist free-market backbone. How on earth do you get communism from that? Ignorance is strong with this one.
No, the origin of Suomi is very old but one theory is that the word Suomi comes from Suomaa which means swamp land. It just has formed into modern form during time. I'm Finnish by the way.
3:23 'Another Union you never heard of, the Hanseatic League'. Why do you assume people have never heard about it? Pretty common knowledge for Europeans who have some interest in history.
Yes! I can understand non-nordic people not knowing about The Nordic Kalmari union, but the Hansa league?? The biggest and most powerful economic might of The time in the entire europe? You need to go back to history 101 If u dont know that!!
He's likely an American, based off of his accent and him saying stuff that's apparently common knowledge to Europeans. I've never heard of either, though, and am from America.
When it comes to Finnish economic matters, none of you European experts most likely knows that Finlandia Vodka is the best selling Vodka on the island of Puerto Rico which is the number one market in Latin America for Finlandia Vodka. They sell around 50000 cases a year. Retail selling price of all that Vodka would come to around $9.6 million US dollars.
@@ab9840 In Poland vodka from Finland is also one of the best, with high price. With prices like 60-80 zł (around 20 dollars) for 1l, which in Poland is quite much (f.e. our national vodkas, which are also high quality, costs from 40-60 zł (around 13 dollars) for 1l).
The vikings called the south of Finland "Balstrandr" or "bonfire coast" referring to the signal fires that the finns lit if the passing ships were there to raid instead of trading. This meant that every incoming ship was met with arrows and nightly ambushes. Even the king Olav got his ass royally kicked there according to the viking sagas, so the "resistace was light at best" statement is a lazy guess from somebody that didn't bother to look too much into it. There are numerous hill forts along the coast and archeological evidence to support a network of defences along the coast pre. 1000 AD.
Been trying to explain this to people for a long time. Finnish defense forces have always been a major threat for any group traversing their land uninvited. And yes I have seen the hill forts, great point. Finland has always been a MFer to deal with during conflicts. What they did to the Russians during WW2 was nothing short of impossible. But Finnish savagery has always been a real difficulty for any nuisance threats to their land, all throughout the ages. They are especially good with blending in to the winter environment and cutting the throats of their enemies. Cheers.
The Vikings raided some of the coastal areas of Finland but they were never inland where most Finns actually lived, deep in the forests, doing magic and ruling the weather.
I'm Finnish and Suomi definitely doesn't mean the land of lakes. Maybe at some point or in Saami, but suo means swamp and mi means nothing, but I guess its kinda close to maa which means land.
The name of the area predates the current language. The word suo didn't exist in the current form back then. The original meaning of Suomi is debatable, but swamp is not a part of any theories linguistics are considering.
@@mlgcheesebugga6129 Joo mut ei se oo se pointti et tän videon tekemine on vaikeeta vaan se et jos päätät tehä informatiivisen videon Suomen historiasta ni kyllä nyt pitäis lähteiden luotettavuus ja ylipäänsä kaikki tieto tarkistaa ennen ku julkasee.
Alooooottt of mistakes. Like calling Finland a Socialist country. Finland is a Market economy, with many social programs commonly called the Nordic Model. Far from being a Socialist country. This is one of those misconceptions many in far left wing politics use to push their ideologies when in fact it has little basis in reality.
The Viking Sagas call the Lapps and Finns a "Land of Wizards, don't go there" Its obvious they did but they must have put up some sorta fight to get that reputation.
Yeah so far all I've read about relations between vikings and Finns is that Finland was a tradehub to collect furs, but there was nothing worth to raid and it was also too deadly to raid.
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A lot of that old pagan religion was imported, but changed like any other non-centralized religion. It was kinda mix and match of few religions made unique by the way it was understood area by area. Just think how christianity took all the pagan holidays and made them their own. That was just systematic version of the same thing. In older pagan religions it just happened naturally when some foreigner belief sounded reasonable for enough people.
Finnish Faith or Suomenusko had rather Thor-like chief deity Ukko (literally translateable into "Guy") whose name is still used in Finnish word for thunder, Ukkonen. I personally think and I've seen some other people on Internet suggest that if Finnish Pagans had become Organized, the resulting religion would have been quite similar to Shinto. Like Japanese native religion, Finns were highly pantheistic, believing that countless lesser gods inhabited almost every piece and parcel of surrounding world.
The most important god in the scandinavian pantheon was arguably Thor, who wielded a hammer and utilized lightning. The most important god in the finnish pantheon was Ukko, who wielded an axe and utilized lightning. The Ukko's Axe pendant is also almost identical to a Mjölnir pendant.
Poland in XIV century split in to smaller states and pomerania was one of them. After some time lots of Polish lands united again but pomerania was one of the states that didint want to, just like silesia
Meaning of Suomi is debatable. Really depends where conclusion is drawn. Most studies point to land of swamps or something similar. Not going to go into details any further, that is just too big rabbit hole to go into. Not much about lakes there. Land of (1000) lakes, pretty recent. Propaganda made by travel agencies to promote tourism.
A lot of misinformation. But this I tell you, we're the worlds 5th happiest place only because the unhappy people kill themselves or drink themselves to death.
Tami Tää and, if we don’t want to spread about 35-year-old info, there happens to happen many more suicides per person in Belgium, and Finland is about on par with France. Well, maybe the facts are boring to you
Why does that sound more like an Irish thing to do. Maybe thats just because im British so our local alcohol land is ireland(but us english are just as bad sometimes).
Saying that "Sweden had gone to war with literally all of its close neighbours." might imply that Sweden also started the war. Just to clarify, the Great Nordic War was (for Sweden) a defensive war.
I love her fat ass its also funny that Denmark and Sweden are the 2 nations in the world who have been most at war with eachother. Even beating England and France's rivalry
I love her fat ass ehh kinda. Karl XII went on the offensive and was all the way down in modern ukraine when he lost his first battle. Offense is the best defense yes, but it could have been alot more defensive
Just so you know, those funny rainbow-coloured hats are a Sami thing, not Finnish. Not a big deal for us, but the Sami consider the shenanigans we call "cultural appropriation" these days extremely offensive.
I am somewhat dissapointed at the video. I thought he would have done a bit more research on finnish history or to even pronouncing the few words correctly. Nearly all points he made were at least little off. And I understand that it's not easy to pack so much things to a ten minute video, but more effort wouldn't have harmed and oversimplification was a big problem.
I don't expect Hispanics to switch to an American accent just to say United States than switch back. People should just approximate the original pronunciation best as the language's phonology will allow. Switching to another language for proper nouns is retarded.
+Nintendo Video Gamer No problem. We are more than willing to exchange Åland for military assistance, that place is more Swedish than it ever was Finnish.
"Suomi" probably comes from the Baltic word žemē (zeme in Latvian, žemė in Lithuanian), which just meant "earth". Alternative theories are: 1) From an Indo-European word meaning "human". Compare Old Lithuanian "žmuo" and Latin "homo". 2) Same root as in suo, meaning "bog". 3) Same root as in suomu(s), meaning "scale" 4) Same root as in suoda, meaning "to let", "to give" The Baltic theory is probably most likely. Contact between Finnic and Baltic tribes was very heavy. The words for "sister" and "tribe" in the Finnic languages are borrowed from Baltic. (Finnish - Lithuanian: sisar - sesuo(genitive: sesers), heimo - šeima). That š became h because the Finnic languages didn't have that sound.
Man, I love the Finnish. Finland is like #1 country I wanna visit right now and maybe stay for a period of time. I am, for some reason, really attracted to the whole Finno-Ugric tradition including the language which I find awesome. And I haven't even met anyone from Finland. Love and respect from Greece. Estonia is awesome too.
A great video, but sadly many of the "facts" mentioned are quite questionable... Do not believe everything told in this video, however much of it was true. Suomi was not, quite understandably, pronounced correctly, nor does it mean the "land of the lakes", for instance. And we are not really the land of reindeer either as one could think from the ending as they only live in the Lapland and most of the Finns haven't even seen them. There were multiple other things that were not correct either, but I do appreciate the effort! Thank you for spreading the word about Finland :P
Temechkin Se sanoo että suomi liitty EU:hun 1995 joka on totta mutta sitte se sanoo että neljä vuotta myöhemmin (1999) tuli eurot, jotka kyllä tuli vasta 2002
liityttiin unioniin 95, euroalueeseen 99 (euro rinnakkaisvaluutaksi kansallisten valuuttojen rinnalle) ja euro korvasi markat 02 (myös fyysisenä valuuttana).... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone
Yeah the euros didn't just appear in 2002 like boom use this nah they were introduced in 1999 but were used alongside finnish marks to ease the transition.
The thing is, nobody really knows. A few years back a study was published that declared the Europe being made up from "those who are Finns & those who are not". 😅 Finns have a long and interesting history, but not a whole lot has been documented or survived.
VildeZeL minö tuon jotain mitä kuitenkaan kukaan ei halua luultavasti ellei se ole alkoholipitoista, joten mahdolleinen tuoma aine tai asia on luultavasti jotain halpaa (alkoholipitoisuuteen verrattuna) alkoholijuomaa
"Let's talk about Finland!" "Sweden" .... "Denmark" .... "Sweden" ... "Sweden" .... "Russian" .... "Sweden" ... Sounds like a very underdog position :-/
@@paavoilves5416 Hard to say.. Did all those tribes back then see eachother as the same aka fins? Or did they see it different? Same goes for swedes and all other groups. How many of these groups did actually see themselves as "Swedes" "Danes" and so on back then before they became a kingdom. I mean all these groups are just a creation by ourselves since in reality we are all the same aka humans.
@@MrFasho123 It comes down to culture and genetics. We had our own culture and subcultures in the middle ages and we did recognize ourselves as Finns (or at least European texts did). We spoke our own language and had our own religion. We just weren't an unified country but rather we we're shattered as smaller tribal chiefdoms like Karelia, Savonia etc. Kind of like not all germanic peoples were under a one unified country (even though one dude tried to make it happen in the 40's). Plus genetically we differ A LOT from Scandinavians.
Suomen historiaa leimaa se, että se kuului Ruotsiin vuosisatojen ajan aina vuoteen 1809 asti, jolloin siitä tuli suuriruhtinaskunta Venäjän valtakunnan alaisuudessa; Venäjän vallankumouksen jälkeen Suomi julistautui itsenäiseksi 6. joulukuuta 1917 ja on sittemmin säilyttänyt suurelta osin neutraalin poliittisen kannan, erityisesti kylmän sodan aikana, ennen kuin se liittyi Euroopan unioniin vuonna 1995; äskettäin, Venäjän Ukrainaan miehityksen johdosta, Suomikin haki Natoon.
Nationalism wasn't high in Finland after the war. People just tried to pay the war reparations, rebuild the country, forget the war and just survive their daily lives. People weren't that optimistic either. Quite the opposite actually. There was still high risk of Soviet occupation after the war and people were pretty doubtful about the future of Finland. Not many really believed they had seen the end of it, especially when there were popping new "People's democracies" all around the eastern Europe, Soviets had a military base at the close vicinity of the capital city Helsinki and great power to influence the domestic policies in Finland. In fact the communists even managed to even get the control over Finnish Security Intelligence Service and there were lots of rumors about possible coups. It wasn't until 50's when people started to become more optimistic - little by little.
Tyynymyy, this is a very true statement. Mentioning nationalism was misplaced here, it is mostly linked to the national awakening in the 19th C, something the video should have included. As for postwar sentiments, some of my relatives left Finland in the fifties, fearing Soviet Union would occupy the country during Yöpakkashallitus.
Most migration from Scandinavia actually happened after the so called Viking era. Finland was mostly poor and sparsely populated wilderness back then, so from raiding perspective it was pretty uninteresting. They did couple raids though, but overall their affect to the area that we nowadays call Finland was very negligible, especially when comparing to other areas surrounding North and Baltic Sea.
Vikings and finno ugric tribes had a good relationships and were trading partners till year 1000 or so. Finnish and Karelian areas were the main source to get furs so ofc they didn't want to fight with finns. Furs were valuable merchandise especially on the south. Vikings traded most of the furs to islamic silver. Swedish vikings raided finnish areas few times on late viking era, but finnish tribes defeated them and they had to retreat. Swedish rune stones are main proof for this.
Tämä ei pidä paikkaansa. Suomalaisilla on paljon rikkaampi ja vanhempi historia kun on luultu, ja syy miksi sitä on kumitettu niin paljon pois johtuu ruotsin 700 vuoden vallasta. Suomalaiset teki paljon vaihtokauppaa ja sodankäyntiä. Ja meidän alkuperäis uskonnot kanssa.
There was a fully operating hillfort/bonfire alerting system against raiders covering the entire southern Finland and Karelia from coasts to inland. Also many runestones tell deaths of Viking chiefs in Finland. Hundreds of Viking swords have been also found in Finland... So the resistance was hard as possible, still not enough.
Seems to me that most advertisment for Greatcoursesplus turn up in the middle of a video. (atleast thats where i found it most of the times) So my guess is that it is one of their requirments for sponsoring a channel taht the advertising is in the middle of a video ensuring that people stay to watch it.
The winged hussars won a great victory vs Sweden in the battle of Kirkholm. But later on the winged hussars became to antique in comparison to the new revolutionary swedish army. In the battle of Gniew the sides where turned and the winged hussars lost to Sweden. After that loss the winged hussars never recovered
Esimerkiksi se, että nuijasota olisi ollut Suomen kansannousu Ruotsia vastaan on hirveä virhe ja se, että Ruotsi olisi valloittanut Suomen. Molemmat liittyy isompaan virheeseen ajatella suomea yhtenäisenä kansana ennen nationalismia.
No ei niille nuijasotilaille kovin hyvin käyny ja pohjanmaa raidattiin aika pahasti heti sen jälkeen. Mut joo ei Suomi mikään kansa ennen 1800-luvun alkua ollu, se on kyllä totta.
Wow, I have an old time internet friend from Finland! Nice to learn about his country's origins! I also kinda agree with the sentiment that socialist is a bit of an overstatement. :P Moi, Suomi! ~Peter from Poland :)
Why are the Finns depicted as dark haired? According to statistics actually the Finns are one of the most blonde haired people in the world - unlike Sweden (although quite surprisingly).
True, we are often blue eyed and some are blonde. Fun fact: That is one of the reasons Hitler liked finns. However I'd say most people have dark/brown hair. Mine was blonde too but with time it grew brown.
One theory tells that Suomi comes from an old baltic word "zeme", which means land. Another theory says that it might have come from a finnish word "suoda", "suopi", "suo", which refers that the forests and swamps of Finland were good hunting grounds, suoda= allow or give. Then there's the theory that Suomi has simply come from the word "suo" which can also be translated into swamp. But hey, who the hell knows?
Yeah... please, no in-video-adds in middle of video.... If that add is at end of video, maybe i'd like it and visit the site. But not this way. -_- I allmost stop watching this video at the advertisement part... yet i deside just skip it.
I don't think it - We are going to keep focusing on bringing people together. That's why we're here. That is why all of us at Pornhub work so HARD. - is really that big of a deal..
No it's not correct. It's the same as calling the U.K. "England", with the difference that at least until the bloody 1654-1667 wars the "Lithuanian" (that is Belarusian-Lithuanian-Ukrainian) part of the union was far more significant politically and demographically than Scotland+Wales+N.Ir. within the U.K.
Lord Roose Bolton, Warden of the North Oh, i should really read the comments twice before responding.... Well, Sweden was "Neutral" in the cold war aswell, Due to our location and shape of the country, we were important in spying on the russians and picking up signals.
@king well that's a load of crap. But there are a lot of those types in successful positions because the system favors them. Not much but a little bit. For example you have to be able to speak swedish in finland to work for the government. There are also schools that give advantage to those of swedish heritage, mainly on the west coast. Luckily the trend is, and has been for a long time, going down slowly but surely.
So many country's claim to be the inventors of santa claus. I mean the netherlands and flemish belgium have a very old festivity called sinterklaas where you could also argue that they invented santa claus. The real fact is that pretty much every european country has their own version of santa claus and claim to be the inventors
nope, the real santa is in fact from south of modern-day turkey, his original name is Άγιος Νικόλαος which st. Nicholas. I suggest you can read the rest from wiki yourself.
Welfare states are not socialism. Socialism is an economic system based on workers control and self management over the means of production, i.e. Workers co-ops, workplace democracy, trade union control of workplaces, etc. ~sincerely, a Finn that has studied socialist and communist theory for 6 years of my life
Sorry, but if your welfare is socialized, your healthcare socialized, and other items socialized, and you are convinced your country is NOT socialist? Try to get a refund for those 6 years of your life.
Socialized =/= socialistic. Socialistic would mean only government can have healthcare. Socialized means private companies can do it, but government has to provide it too. We do have a lot of private healthcare businesses, but they have to compete with basicly free government system. They still make money by having reasonable prices and better service. For example if I want my teeth checked/fixed I can get to a waiting list for "free" (it costs around 40€ unless you are poor enough to get it free) dentist and wait for months (emergencies like chipped or just quick pain patching of course get in right away) for basicly just health focused job. If I pay about 120€ I can go to a private dentist today or tomorrow and get the same thing done. P.s. Our schooling is socialized too, so no need for that refund :) Have fun with your student loans.
Socialism is a form of government where the workers own the means of production, this is not the case in finland. Private property is still a thing in finland, so we are a capitalist democracy, but with strong social programs.
Charles IX was Sigusmund's uncle, not his nephew. And Sweden was also neutral during the Cold War. Other than that I loved the video. Thanks, keep up the good work!
Regarding the unions one never heard of... I moved from Germany to Sweden after 7th grade. I had learned a fair amount about the Hanseatic league in History class, and the Kalmar Union was briefly mentioned. Then, it was the other way around when we got to about the same time period in later high school history.
I don't have a lot of Finnish ancestry but it's still there I have more Eastern European, Spanish ancestry , West and East African ancestry than Finnish but I'd like to still consider Finnish history my history.
>resistance was light at best Nope, swedes feared the finns and tought they were witches. Even today finns have a robust and strong build that would have been pretty overpowered in the age of sword and axe. Since the finnish language and culture still exist they must have fought back and won. Hell they even have their own god, prayers and symbols of war and a unique code of honor(Like in Kalevala, where it is stated that the bow is a weapon of cowards and the fighter with the longer sword can strike first). Finns are no joke, never have been
I have heard of the Kalmar Union. I know that it was named after the Swedish town of Kalmar. This union was between the areas of Finland (like Abo, Reval and Narva) as well as the south of Norway (Akershus, Agder and Tingvalla) this union was both of trade and military. This union occurred after a Danish proposition because they feared that the Holy Roman Empire wanted to take Hamburg (a significant Danish settlement at the time). Norway feared the Danes would attack if they disagreed and had a lot of soldiers occupied in the British Isles and other colonial efforts. The Swedes wanted support because they feared the Teutonic Order and Novgorod would attack Visby in Gotland. The whole alliance was really built because of fear of outside attack.
So mini series on China and India? Is that what this thread is suggesting? Because I don't know about the rest of you wonderful people from around the world, but I wouldn't mind that, not at all. Sincerely, An ignorant American.
The Hanseatic League is actually pretty famous here in Germany because there are still the so-called "Hansestädte" (e.g.: Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, etc.). Will there be an Animated History of England or Wales?
I am pretty sure tho that only parts of Germany, Poland, Netherlands and Baltic were in the Hanzestad. As in only certain city's and the surrounding countryside. For example not the entire Netherlands were part of it.
Finns are the Dwarves of the Nordic countries :tough, grumpy, industrious and proud. Swedes are men, Danes are hobbits and Norwegians are the elves. (Icelanders are those elves that went beyond the sea and never was heard of again) (Note: this is a joke playing on stereotypes. I do not think any nationality are less or more than human)
Why do some people keep on calling Finland, and other Nordic countries "socialist"? Our economies are mixed, but lean towards free market and capitalism. "Socialist" countries would be former Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, PR China etc.
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well finland isnt scandinavia but it was counqernd by sweden.
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suomi does NOT mean land of lakes. land of lakes would be järvien maa.
tri_otto gaming yep
Suibhne it’s 2018 and this ‘2nd referendum’ hasn’t happened and never will 😂
Just a little clear-up, calling Finland socialist is a bit of an overstatement. Politically we're a parliamentary republic with a "ceremonial" president. The Nordic model, which is commonly called socialist for some reason, combines, on a national level, free market capitalism with ideas of welfare state and collective bargaining. Just because our QOL is high and public healthcare exists doesn't mean we're a Marxist society or something.
The Nordic model (also called Nordic capitalism or Nordic social democracy).
Although there are significant differences among the Nordic countries, they all share some common traits.
TKWeckroth True. There's a stark difference between a socialist state and a social democracy. Finland and other Nordics are completely capitalist as systems (perhaps increasingly so) but provide a pretty good welfare, free education, and have large public sectors, funded by high taxes. It seems to work pretty well.
Socialism is an economic model, not a political one.
TKWeckroth How is Finland doing with refugees? It doesn't seem to be as huge as swedens problem
Compared to Sweden, we're very strict when it comes to refugees. Our problems aren't as big as big as Sweden's because we haven't let too many inside our borders. It's a political issue on which we can't seem to agree on.
"Which means the land of lakes"
According to whom? The ethymology of the word "Suomi" is unclear, but definitely it has nothing to do with the Finnish word for "lake", which is "järvi".
the closest thing would be the part suo aka swamp but thats about it
@@EneSacarification so someone being Finnish and knowing Finnish language telling you a Finnish word does not mean the thing a foreigner told you it means, is not enough proof to you?
@@EneSacarification to your first question, his name is in Finnish and could be a surname, and everything he says is linguistically correct. To your second, the video phrases it as if it meant that in the modern language, which it certainly does not. In addition, you think we haven't wondered where our country's got it's name from? There are loads of studies and debate and the fact is that there's no definite proof about any particular explanation, only educated guesswork. We go through a couple of different possibilities in school as well. Still, none of the theories I've read have ever linked the name to lakes, only swamps or just "land" in general.
Suomi comes from "Suo" and "Maa"; "Swamp" and "Land" which then gradually turned into Suomi. So I guess it's kind of right.
@@antonwallin7122 it doesn't necessarily. There is no definitive evidence of that and historians do not have an agreement as of yet. That explanation is very popular because it sounds logical in modern language but to my understanding it's just as (un)likely as the other explanations
As a former history teacher i will give this a D+. There are alot of misstakes, misconseptions etc etc in this clip.
misstakes
You are not a former history teacher
For instance, queen Magaret did not marry the (extremely unpopular (among the nobles)) king of Sweden she defeated him also, her heir was her nephew not her adopted son.
As a current UA-cam English teacher, I give you a D+.
wellif you were one of the history teachers who said poland couldn't hold out like at all during ww2 then i give you a f-
Social Democracy* not socialism. Big difference.
One allows for elections, the other one doesn't. Such a big difference, dude.
MaskinistN Yes, dictatorship and democracy aren’t really similar
@@EmmaWithoutOrgans so youre admitting socialism doesn't lead to communism and instead leads do dictatorship?
Social democracy is closeted communism.
@@lassemanninen4750 Social democracy has a firm capitalist free-market backbone. How on earth do you get communism from that? Ignorance is strong with this one.
Happy 100th Finland!
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Thanks but... in 6.12.2018 Finland is 101
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He did not mention Sauna, did he?
KisuMisuNi nope
KisuMisuNi sauna perkele :3
KisuMisuNi Why is it hot here? Oh wait Were in a SAUNA!
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"The Finns call their land Suomi which means land of lakes"
...no it doesn't.
A possible meaning is: Suo (swamp in Finnish) + mi which is maybe similar to maa (land is Finnish)
Mi does not mean anything exept ”mine” in very old finnish. (Im finnish so trust me)
No, the origin of Suomi is very old but one theory is that the word Suomi comes from Suomaa which means swamp land. It just has formed into modern form during time. I'm Finnish by the way.
M S I am also Finnish, and yeah language evolution would make the suomaa theory very plausible
Yeah because Suomi means swamp/bog land. Soomaa means the same thing in Estonian.
3:23 'Another Union you never heard of, the Hanseatic League'. Why do you assume people have never heard about it? Pretty common knowledge for Europeans who have some interest in history.
Yes! I can understand non-nordic people not knowing about The Nordic Kalmari union, but the Hansa league?? The biggest and most powerful economic might of The time in the entire europe? You need to go back to history 101 If u dont know that!!
He's likely an American, based off of his accent and him saying stuff that's apparently common knowledge to Europeans. I've never heard of either, though, and am from America.
Chad Michael the narrator of this video isn’t the same as the regular videos who sounds Australian. Seems like he got someone else to do this video
When it comes to Finnish economic matters, none of you European experts most likely knows that Finlandia Vodka is the best selling Vodka on the island of Puerto Rico which is the number one market in Latin America for Finlandia Vodka. They sell around 50000 cases a year. Retail selling price of all that Vodka would come to around $9.6 million US dollars.
@@ab9840 In Poland vodka from Finland is also one of the best, with high price. With prices like 60-80 zł (around 20 dollars) for 1l, which in Poland is quite much (f.e. our national vodkas, which are also high quality, costs from 40-60 zł (around 13 dollars) for 1l).
About 30% accurate. Not sure if I should be impressed or disappointed.
Dimetropteryx i would be impressed for atleast not confusing us with scandinavia,the rest is dissapointment
The vikings called the south of Finland "Balstrandr" or "bonfire coast" referring to the signal fires that the finns lit if the passing ships were there to raid instead of trading. This meant that every incoming ship was met with arrows and nightly ambushes. Even the king Olav got his ass royally kicked there according to the viking sagas, so the "resistace was light at best" statement is a lazy guess from somebody that didn't bother to look too much into it. There are numerous hill forts along the coast and archeological evidence to support a network of defences along the coast pre. 1000 AD.
Been trying to explain this to people for a long time. Finnish defense forces have always been a major threat for any group traversing their land uninvited. And yes I have seen the hill forts, great point. Finland has always been a MFer to deal with during conflicts. What they did to the Russians during WW2 was nothing short of impossible. But Finnish savagery has always been a real difficulty for any nuisance threats to their land, all throughout the ages. They are especially good with blending in to the winter environment and cutting the throats of their enemies. Cheers.
The Vikings raided some of the coastal areas of Finland but they were never inland where most Finns actually lived, deep in the forests, doing magic and ruling the weather.
I'm Finnish and Suomi definitely doesn't mean the land of lakes. Maybe at some point or in Saami, but suo means swamp and mi means nothing, but I guess its kinda close to maa which means land.
"Finland" probably means "the land of lakes"
The name of the area predates the current language. The word suo didn't exist in the current form back then. The original meaning of Suomi is debatable, but swamp is not a part of any theories linguistics are considering.
Fin comes from fenni when the romans visited the country long ago, it meant beautiful because the fins were clean people because of saunas.
MrAce the waty he said Suomi lol
Finland varmaan tarkoittaa järvien maata mut suomi ei kyl yhtään tarkota mitään sellaist
Love to Finland from Denmark 🇩🇰♥️🇫🇮
Finland will always be one of my favorite countries, with the beautiful land and lakes
Long live Suomi! 💪🇫🇮👏🏻🤜🏻🤛🏻🤝
Oof
Oon suomesta kotoisin!
Kiitti kaveri, ja saunassa tavataan
Thank you From finland :D
@@morgenssen6026 torilla tavataan
Video starts at 1:02
It stops at 5:27 and resumes at 6:15
video starts at 0:00 and ends at 10:01
You made alot of mistakes dude. You shouldn't make these videos if you can't take the time to research correct information.
Teeppä itte jostain toisesta maasta tällänen video. Esim. joku Montenegro tai Kosovo.
@@mlgcheesebugga6129 Joo mut ei se oo se pointti et tän videon tekemine on vaikeeta vaan se et jos päätät tehä informatiivisen videon Suomen historiasta ni kyllä nyt pitäis lähteiden luotettavuus ja ylipäänsä kaikki tieto tarkistaa ennen ku julkasee.
Alooooottt of mistakes. Like calling Finland a Socialist country. Finland is a Market economy, with many social programs commonly called the Nordic Model. Far from being a Socialist country.
This is one of those misconceptions many in far left wing politics use to push their ideologies when in fact it has little basis in reality.
Mutta jos teet, pidä faktat oikeina.
@Niko älä nyt vittu jaksa osaatko muka piirtää noi hyvi ku toi
One of the reasons finland is so high on the happiness list is because sweden is only 10:th or 8:th or something like that
i r8 gr8/8
PATO
Are you from Sweden?
Hej Peik. Jag känner dig.
no, we kill ourselves for happyness.
PATO Maybe it is that the drunken sad people does suicides so there is only happy people left? o.O
The Viking Sagas call the Lapps and Finns a "Land of Wizards, don't go there" Its obvious they did but they must have put up some sorta fight to get that reputation.
Maybe they met Väinämöinen?
Fredrik Dunge YES
Haha I’m learning Finnish through Duolingo and one of the words in the most BASIC introductory courses is wizard.
Maybe they meant Aurora borealis? Although I don't know how Vikings would need to venture to Finland to experience this.
Yeah so far all I've read about relations between vikings and Finns is that Finland was a tradehub to collect furs, but there was nothing worth to raid and it was also too deadly to raid.
Someone cares about us enough to make a Animated History video on us? I feel like crying. SUOMI MAINITTU!
TORILLA TAVATAAN!
@Masked Opinions Thanks friend!
now i just have to wait until you'r long lost cousin Hungary rolls around! well i supose Estonia can come first if it wants
I as a swede am happy for you our Finnish brothers! :)
darkkismies suomi finland perkele karjala takaisin
4:24 "Sigismund...before being deposed by his nephew King Charles."
No, Charles was his uncle.
Lazy errors you made, makes me wonder where you get your information, and wonder if its the same with other videos
PERKELE
PERKELE
It's the same in his other videos. Way too much errors.
PERKELE
Perkele
The pronuciation Sa-WAH-mee [1:28] for Suomi is just bizarre.
Yeah
Dont tell me I've never heard about the Kalmar Union. I play EU4, too much
Always fear the OP Swedes
Threarus Camuwundra same the Hansa league
Ohh Europa Universalis. I love it so much but it's robbing me so much time..
Threarus Camuwundra When you're trying to form Scandinavia but Muscovy keeps sticking its dick in Finland
Threarus Camuwundra Love that game so much, more than 1000 hours played. Recently found M&T 2.0 mod, you really should check it out, makes the game even better
The Finns had a completely different pagan religion than the vikings so that was not imported.
There were many similarities between Scandinavian and Finnish pagan beliefs.
A lot of that old pagan religion was imported, but changed like any other non-centralized religion. It was kinda mix and match of few religions made unique by the way it was understood area by area. Just think how christianity took all the pagan holidays and made them their own. That was just systematic version of the same thing. In older pagan religions it just happened naturally when some foreigner belief sounded reasonable for enough people.
Finnish Faith or Suomenusko had rather Thor-like chief deity Ukko (literally translateable into "Guy") whose name is still used in Finnish word for thunder, Ukkonen. I personally think and I've seen some other people on Internet suggest that if Finnish Pagans had become Organized, the resulting religion would have been quite similar to Shinto. Like Japanese native religion, Finns were highly pantheistic, believing that countless lesser gods inhabited almost every piece and parcel of surrounding world.
The most important god in the scandinavian pantheon was arguably Thor, who wielded a hammer and utilized lightning.
The most important god in the finnish pantheon was Ukko, who wielded an axe and utilized lightning. The Ukko's Axe pendant is also almost identical to a Mjölnir pendant.
Ukko isn't translated into "Guy." It means "Old man"
3:50 "A Duke from Poland" points to Pomerania
Yeah, he fucked up there.
Pomeranians were West Slavic people from modern day Poland. The area of Pomerania today is split between Germany and Poland.
Car 1992 was it not poland at that time? Honestly curious.
Nope it was little independent country of HRE(they were rly weak)
Poland in XIV century split in to smaller states and pomerania was one of them. After some time lots of Polish lands united again but pomerania was one of the states that didint want to, just like silesia
Thanks for a great video, I learned a lot about Finland (a country I don't know much about otherwise)!
Suomi=land of lakes???? this guy hasn't done his homework
Sande-Studios Probably some problems with the research but Finland is known as the land of lakes
Ootko ite tehny? Aattelitko ollenkaan että se saattaisi tarkoittsa sitä muinais suomella?
Mirzu42 no kun ei tarkoita
Suo maa , swampy land
Meaning of Suomi is debatable. Really depends where conclusion is drawn. Most studies point to land of swamps or something similar. Not going to go into details any further, that is just too big rabbit hole to go into. Not much about lakes there. Land of (1000) lakes, pretty recent. Propaganda made by travel agencies to promote tourism.
A lot of misinformation. But this I tell you, we're the worlds 5th happiest place only because the unhappy people kill themselves or drink themselves to death.
That still counts!
yep we finnish people are pretty anti social
Tami Tää and, if we don’t want to spread about 35-year-old info, there happens to happen many more suicides per person in Belgium, and Finland is about on par with France. Well, maybe the facts are boring to you
Why does that sound more like an Irish thing to do. Maybe thats just because im British so our local alcohol land is ireland(but us english are just as bad sometimes).
@@bradleycovell9120 "Sometimes"?
Saying that "Sweden had gone to war with literally all of its close neighbours." might imply that Sweden also started the war.
Just to clarify, the Great Nordic War was (for Sweden) a defensive war.
I love her fat ass its also funny that Denmark and Sweden are the 2 nations in the world who have been most at war with eachother. Even beating England and France's rivalry
I love her fat ass ehh kinda. Karl XII went on the offensive and was all the way down in modern ukraine when he lost his first battle. Offense is the best defense yes, but it could have been alot more defensive
***** However, Sweden was attacked first. How they decided to deal with a serious Russian threat (and others) was a consequence.
Not that sure for England and France's rivalry wich lasted for something like 900-1000 years
Its not about time the rivalry lasted. Its about how many times they declared war on one another.
"Another union you've never heard of..." Haha, yes if you're American and not European
@@elharvey5032 Half of those countries you mentioned are located in America, dumbass
@@elharvey5032 japanese and mongolian people arent watching these videos MAYBE and just MAYBE like 0,001% of the viewerbase is
@@elharvey5032 Uh... South and North America are in America...
@@elharvey5032 we were talking about america..
@@Lajosen Now I'm curious which countries he listed
Just so you know, those funny rainbow-coloured hats are a Sami thing, not Finnish. Not a big deal for us, but the Sami consider the shenanigans we call "cultural appropriation" these days extremely offensive.
Furio Giunta We finns dont like it anymore than Sami people that were mistaken as them.
Shame that Sami people are native-Finns... And got Sami roots...
@@kuikkis91 They are a different race.
@@kuikkis91 finns are native to finland you fool samis are native to northern finland learn history
@@suissais4732 YOU should learn history of ur own country. Dont forget the land you people stole
I am somewhat dissapointed at the video. I thought he would have done a bit more research on finnish history or to even pronouncing the few words correctly. Nearly all points he made were at least little off. And I understand that it's not easy to pack so much things to a ten minute video, but more effort wouldn't have harmed and oversimplification was a big problem.
Lauri Elsilä You say kinda? Yeeah, sure, whatever you say...
Huomasin kyllä että Suomesta olet, laitoin silti kommentin enkuksi, en tiä miksi
I don't expect Hispanics to switch to an American accent just to say United States than switch back. People should just approximate the original pronunciation best as the language's phonology will allow. Switching to another language for proper nouns is retarded.
Lauri Elsilä
He could have even tried.
Also to mention, we want our Karelia back
Karjala vittu takaisin? oon mukana
We Swedes will gladly help you in exchange for Åland
+Nintendo Video Gamer
No problem. We are more than willing to exchange Åland for military assistance, that place is more Swedish than it ever was Finnish.
ei me mitään karjalaa tarvita kun petsamo, kuola ja salla-kuusamo
karjala on muutenkin niin ryssäläistetty että siitä ei ole suomelle muuta kun harmia jos se liitetään takas Suomeen
Omg it's like vice and Huffington post did the research for this channel
Meaning of word Suomi is unknown. Finnish citizens were allowed to vote on joining EU. Not allowed to vote on joining €-zone.
im from finland and it comes from suo-maa that means swamp country
"Suomi" probably comes from the Baltic word žemē (zeme in Latvian, žemė in Lithuanian), which just meant "earth".
Alternative theories are:
1) From an Indo-European word meaning "human". Compare Old Lithuanian "žmuo" and Latin "homo".
2) Same root as in suo, meaning "bog".
3) Same root as in suomu(s), meaning "scale"
4) Same root as in suoda, meaning "to let", "to give"
The Baltic theory is probably most likely. Contact between Finnic and Baltic tribes was very heavy. The words for "sister" and "tribe" in the Finnic languages are borrowed from Baltic. (Finnish - Lithuanian: sisar - sesuo(genitive: sesers), heimo - šeima). That š became h because the Finnic languages didn't have that sound.
That's just speculation. The word "suo" most likely didn't exist then in the same sense as it does today.
But can we agree that the name 'Finland' means 'nice land' in Swedish? =D
Some of these "facts", illustrations, and maps are just plain ridiculous.
BENNYVIKS well if u know so much then u make a similar video
@@keaganfernandes2441 No but some could hage been fixed with a quick google search.
Didn't include the Finno-Korean Hyper War 0/10
Veetu Pihlström You know what a joke is?
Veetu Pihlström Do you know you’re stupid?
Not as annoying as reddit polish war :v
@@rileymiller1294 wat he said
Finland and Poland=War with soviet union
I wish you would do a bit more research for these videos.
He decided to make this so i guess we should decide to edit it ❤
Man, I love the Finnish. Finland is like #1 country I wanna visit right now and maybe stay for a period of time. I am, for some reason, really attracted to the whole Finno-Ugric tradition including the language which I find awesome. And I haven't even met anyone from Finland. Love and respect from Greece. Estonia is awesome too.
Bames Jond hi if u visit finland try to stay outside big cities (in the south part), they are getting too multicultural for most finns.
Bames Jond Actually someone likes to visit Finland instead Italy, France and Great Britain
wtf
Oskar Benson What a nice Swede you are.
Oskar Benson A compliment.
A great video, but sadly many of the "facts" mentioned are quite questionable... Do not believe everything told in this video, however much of it was true.
Suomi was not, quite understandably, pronounced correctly, nor does it mean the "land of the lakes", for instance. And we are not really the land of reindeer either as one could think from the ending as they only live in the Lapland and most of the Finns haven't even seen them. There were multiple other things that were not correct either, but I do appreciate the effort! Thank you for spreading the word about Finland :P
Also, the picture used when mentioning reindeer seems more like some kind of deer
Emlovina i live in finland and all of that is true
Everyone in America knows.
I don't know about other places.
Really enjoyed seeing this, although you said finland took up euros in 1999, which is false. Finland used finnish marks until 2002...
Juri Laamanen Eikö se just sanonu että liitty EU:hun 1999 mutta eurot tuli vasta muutaman vuoden päästä?
Temechkin Se sanoo että suomi liitty EU:hun 1995 joka on totta mutta sitte se sanoo että neljä vuotta myöhemmin (1999) tuli eurot, jotka kyllä tuli vasta 2002
Aijaa, tuli vaa sivusilmällä seurattuu videota ni kuulin vääri
liityttiin unioniin 95, euroalueeseen 99 (euro rinnakkaisvaluutaksi kansallisten valuuttojen rinnalle) ja euro korvasi markat 02 (myös fyysisenä valuuttana).... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone
Yeah the euros didn't just appear in 2002 like boom use this nah they were introduced in 1999 but were used alongside finnish marks to ease the transition.
I wanted to learn more about the origin of Finns rather than more recent developments.
That's called prehistory
Vid says "History of Finland."
The thing is, nobody really knows. A few years back a study was published that declared the Europe being made up from "those who are Finns & those who are not". 😅 Finns have a long and interesting history, but not a whole lot has been documented or survived.
Finland mentioned outside its border. Every finn celebtate
Svenska torille
Torilla tavataan!
VildeZeL minö tuon jotain mitä kuitenkaan kukaan ei halua luultavasti ellei se ole alkoholipitoista, joten mahdolleinen tuoma aine tai asia on luultavasti jotain halpaa (alkoholipitoisuuteen verrattuna) alkoholijuomaa
Perrrkele
Hillariously enough, Finland is the most commonly mentioned nordic country in anime, at least as far as I've seen.
"Let's talk about Finland!"
"Sweden" .... "Denmark" .... "Sweden" ... "Sweden" .... "Russian" .... "Sweden" ...
Sounds like a very underdog position :-/
Well Finland just started existing 100 years ago so if you are going to talk about all the years before that it will be like how you wrote it.
@@MrFasho123 As an unified, independent country, yes. As a peoples we go way back.
@@paavoilves5416 Hard to say.. Did all those tribes back then see eachother as the same aka fins? Or did they see it different? Same goes for swedes and all other groups. How many of these groups did actually see themselves as "Swedes" "Danes" and so on back then before they became a kingdom. I mean all these groups are just a creation by ourselves since in reality we are all the same aka humans.
@@MrFasho123 It comes down to culture and genetics. We had our own culture and subcultures in the middle ages and we did recognize ourselves as Finns (or at least European texts did). We spoke our own language and had our own religion. We just weren't an unified country but rather we we're shattered as smaller tribal chiefdoms like Karelia, Savonia etc. Kind of like not all germanic peoples were under a one unified country (even though one dude tried to make it happen in the 40's). Plus genetically we differ A LOT from Scandinavians.
@@MrFasho123
No. Just no. Finns have existed for thousands of years. As an independent country, 100 years.
Sad to say I'm only a few minutes in and there's already a ton of false information.
Please elaborate.
For example, it's not really known what 'Suomi' means, but it sure doesn't mean 'Land of Lakes'.
Swamp.
Lorvi atleast the Simo Häyhä and winter war was true
Also, the history goes back way further than 500 BC
Suomen historiaa leimaa se, että se kuului Ruotsiin vuosisatojen ajan aina vuoteen 1809 asti, jolloin siitä tuli suuriruhtinaskunta Venäjän valtakunnan alaisuudessa; Venäjän vallankumouksen jälkeen Suomi julistautui itsenäiseksi 6. joulukuuta 1917 ja on sittemmin säilyttänyt suurelta osin neutraalin poliittisen kannan, erityisesti kylmän sodan aikana, ennen kuin se liittyi Euroopan unioniin vuonna 1995; äskettäin, Venäjän Ukrainaan miehityksen johdosta, Suomikin haki Natoon.
Nationalism wasn't high in Finland after the war. People just tried to pay the war reparations, rebuild the country, forget the war and just survive their daily lives. People weren't that optimistic either. Quite the opposite actually. There was still high risk of Soviet occupation after the war and people were pretty doubtful about the future of Finland.
Not many really believed they had seen the end of it, especially when there were popping new "People's democracies" all around the eastern Europe, Soviets had a military base at the close vicinity of the capital city Helsinki and great power to influence the domestic policies in Finland. In fact the communists even managed to even get the control over Finnish Security Intelligence Service and there were lots of rumors about possible coups.
It wasn't until 50's when people started to become more optimistic - little by little.
Tyynymyy, this is a very true statement. Mentioning nationalism was misplaced here, it is mostly linked to the national awakening in the 19th C, something the video should have included. As for postwar sentiments, some of my relatives left Finland in the fifties, fearing Soviet Union would occupy the country during Yöpakkashallitus.
Most migration from Scandinavia actually happened after the so called Viking era. Finland was mostly poor and sparsely populated wilderness back then, so from raiding perspective it was pretty uninteresting. They did couple raids though, but overall their affect to the area that we nowadays call Finland was very negligible, especially when comparing to other areas surrounding North and Baltic Sea.
Tämähän ei välttämättä pidä paikkaansa, sillä löydökset osoittavat meillä olleen rikkaampi muinaishistoria, kuin historiankirjoissa väitetään.
Vikings and finno ugric tribes had a good relationships and were trading partners till year 1000 or so.
Finnish and Karelian areas were the main source to get furs so ofc they didn't want to fight with finns.
Furs were valuable merchandise especially on the south.
Vikings traded most of the furs to islamic silver.
Swedish vikings raided finnish areas few times on late viking era, but finnish tribes defeated them and they had to retreat.
Swedish rune stones are main proof for this.
Tämä ei pidä paikkaansa. Suomalaisilla on paljon rikkaampi ja vanhempi historia kun on luultu, ja syy miksi sitä on kumitettu niin paljon pois johtuu ruotsin 700 vuoden vallasta. Suomalaiset teki paljon vaihtokauppaa ja sodankäyntiä. Ja meidän alkuperäis uskonnot kanssa.
There was a fully operating hillfort/bonfire alerting system against raiders covering the entire southern Finland and Karelia from coasts to inland. Also many runestones tell deaths of Viking chiefs in Finland. Hundreds of Viking swords have been also found in Finland... So the resistance was hard as possible, still not enough.
"So called "White Death" " ITS SIMO HÄYHÄ PERKELE!
kuka vittu ny huutelee, en jaksais käydä täälä joka kolmas sekuntti
5:25 This ruined the video :/
previous videos did not have this "commercial break" in the middle of animations...
It ruined the video for me too...
Really annoying especially in the middle of a video.
Man i have to agree. This interruption was horrible.
Seems to me that most advertisment for Greatcoursesplus turn up in the middle of a video. (atleast thats where i found it most of the times) So my guess is that it is one of their requirments for sponsoring a channel taht the advertising is in the middle of a video ensuring that people stay to watch it.
The way you say Suomi sounds like salami. :D
curryvid Salami mainittu prkl
Salmiakki
0:46 *THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED*
if you know this you can be my friend
Stealthy Owl My friend in my second life when I get reincarnated I want to be a wing of a winged hussar
COMING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE
Finland also has the highest concentration of metal bands in the world. Beating Sweden and their band of tank lovers by a small margin. :p
Metso Yass!
Stealthy Owl sabaton
Video was upoladed on my 18th birthday :) I love finland, it is special country with beautiful language and people
You pretty much left out the Jatkosota and jumped straight into the Lapin sota, but otherwise a great and informative video. Cheers from Finland!
Continuation War
John Snake yes.
perkele
I wish he had mentioned how the germans destroyed the railways with most of lapland as they left. *Heristää tulitikkuaskia*
Perkele
lol... suomi mursut:D!!!!
PERKELE
VITTU
HELVETTI
gassluc paskaa
gassluc lololol perkele :3
00:48 then the winged hussars arrived.....
and were promptly defeated !!!
Coming down they turned the tide
"then the winged hussars arrived"
only to be crushed by the Hakkapeliitta... ;)
You kidding right? Winged hussars crushes Swedish cavalry.
The winged hussars won a great victory vs Sweden in the battle of Kirkholm. But later on the winged hussars became to antique in comparison to the new revolutionary swedish army. In the battle of Gniew the sides where turned and the winged hussars lost to Sweden. After that loss the winged hussars never recovered
Finland is still the only country to completely pay off their ww2 reparations. Even though they were the defending side.
I think that alone sums up our character nicely.
Sweden was on the defense in the Great Northern War. Claiming Sweden was an aggressor is like claiming Poland was and aggressor in WW2.
poland took danzig from germany though.
As far as I know Danzig was a free-city.
I Love Finland from sweden
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Lookaklocka Games i love u from finland
Locka Klocka i’m sorru but we can’t same
I hate learning swedish
We love you too
So much misinformation I almost feel insulted
Me too
same
Mikäs tässä nyt niin kauheen väärin oli?
Esimerkiksi se, että nuijasota olisi ollut Suomen kansannousu Ruotsia vastaan on hirveä virhe ja se, että Ruotsi olisi valloittanut Suomen. Molemmat liittyy isompaan virheeseen ajatella suomea yhtenäisenä kansana ennen nationalismia.
No ei niille nuijasotilaille kovin hyvin käyny ja pohjanmaa raidattiin aika pahasti heti sen jälkeen. Mut joo ei Suomi mikään kansa ennen 1800-luvun alkua ollu, se on kyllä totta.
Wow, I have an old time internet friend from Finland! Nice to learn about his country's origins!
I also kinda agree with the sentiment that socialist is a bit of an overstatement. :P
Moi, Suomi!
~Peter from Poland :)
Why are the Finns depicted as dark haired? According to statistics actually the Finns are one of the most blonde haired people in the world - unlike Sweden (although quite surprisingly).
Vanhapjuuma Not one of the most, but THE most blue eyed and blonde haired.
In the south its actually 50/50 mix
almost all pepole in northern europe are blonde
Well sweden is turning arab pretty quickly so they arent going to surpass us... i hope...
True, we are often blue eyed and some are blonde. Fun fact: That is one of the reasons Hitler liked finns. However I'd say most people have dark/brown hair. Mine was blonde too but with time it grew brown.
I'm Finnish and Suomi doesn't mean "the land of lakes"
That's what it meant in 500BC.
Rather land of swampy areas
No one know where the name comes.
There are some theories but we don't know for sure where the name comes.
One theory tells that Suomi comes from an old baltic word "zeme", which means land. Another theory says that it might have come from a finnish word "suoda", "suopi", "suo", which refers that the forests and swamps of Finland were good hunting grounds, suoda= allow or give. Then there's the theory that Suomi has simply come from the word "suo" which can also be translated into swamp. But hey, who the hell knows?
A mid video advertisement? Seriously?
Yeah... please, no in-video-adds in middle of video.... If that add is at end of video, maybe i'd like it and visit the site. But not this way. -_- I allmost stop watching this video at the advertisement part... yet i deside just skip it.
I don't think it -
We are going to keep focusing on bringing people together. That's why we're here. That is why all of us at Pornhub work so HARD.
- is really that big of a deal..
Yes, very seriously.
ngl i rate this video 4 out of 10
Me too honestly
Explain
It's bad and needs to be remade with better sources and a better narrative focus
my friend made this comment I never watched this video lmao
You always write Poland on the map where it was Poland - Lithuania Commonwealth.
everybody sees commomwealth as poland besides lithuanians. poland was the leader of the union so de facto its correct.
No it's not correct. It's the same as calling the U.K. "England", with the difference that at least until the bloody 1654-1667 wars the "Lithuanian" (that is Belarusian-Lithuanian-Ukrainian) part of the union was far more significant politically and demographically than Scotland+Wales+N.Ir. within the U.K.
Small correction: Sweden was neutral during the cold war as well, just as Finland
Earth+ it was never mentioned in the vid that Sweden wasnt neutral...
It showed USSR as Red and Nato as Blue and apparently Sweden was in Nato.
@@msgmailcom 8:30 Sweden is marked blue as a western power dipshit
Chewy Suarez no they are marked as western allies while they wasn’t allied with anyone
sweden wasn't in western side in cold war, it was also neutral
Kinda, but no. Sweden provided weapons and aid atleast in the Vietnam war for the commies. Also wanted to make nukes..
Max Plays Sweden supplied Finland with Money, ammunition, veichles and volunteers. It was "neutral"
Olle Rydén
He's talking about the Cold War, not the Winter War.
Lord Roose Bolton, Warden of the North Oh, i should really read the comments twice before responding....
Well, Sweden was "Neutral" in the cold war aswell, Due to our location and shape of the country, we were important in spying on the russians and picking up signals.
Skiie I dont see how wanting to create nukes would make you less neutral?
That looks more like a regular deer, than a reindeer.
Finland had much deeper history during the byzantine times but, it got destroyed by the conguering swedes "only the victors write the history"
asimolok What hahaahahash all sucessful fins are ethnic swedes
@king well that's a load of crap. But there are a lot of those types in successful positions because the system favors them. Not much but a little bit. For example you have to be able to speak swedish in finland to work for the government. There are also schools that give advantage to those of swedish heritage, mainly on the west coast. Luckily the trend is, and has been for a long time, going down slowly but surely.
King JötenHeimr
I read a book on great swedish war heroes. A good book, i liked both pages.
11DNA11 Oh please, tell me of these great Finnish war heroes, I haven't heard of any so far.
Moonw1ng You've seriously never heard of Mannerheim?
You forgot PERKELE
PeliKeijot HD huoh..
😂😂😂
Yes and nokia hakkapeliitta and vitu saatana perkele jumalauta helvetti,fiskars,my summer car,sauna sm,big titty smoothpussy girls,and such things
PeliKeijot HD :D
Typical, you totally skipped how Santa Claus is in fact from Finland.
What did you expect, the guy doesn't even know the difference between a deer and and reindeer .....
So many country's claim to be the inventors of santa claus. I mean the netherlands and flemish belgium have a very old festivity called sinterklaas where you could also argue that they invented santa claus. The real fact is that pretty much every european country has their own version of santa claus and claim to be the inventors
nope, the real santa is in fact from south of modern-day turkey, his original name is Άγιος Νικόλαος which st. Nicholas. I suggest you can read the rest from wiki yourself.
+Rakon why is the santa's workshop in korvatunturi then? there visits many million ppl from around the world
George Niceguy Santa Claus and Saint Nicholas are completely different characters.
A country that has some of the greatest landscapes around the world and a place I'd like to visit to
Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷🇫🇮
0:12 You guess.. it's bordering Norway? Are you thick? You can clearly see it's bordering Norway in the north huh.
A Norwegian king with nice hair
Nice hair mate
A Norwegian king with nice hair this is outrageous!
Harald Hårfagre is that you?
Welfare states are not socialism. Socialism is an economic system based on workers control and self management over the means of production, i.e. Workers co-ops, workplace democracy, trade union control of workplaces, etc.
~sincerely, a Finn that has studied socialist and communist theory for 6 years of my life
Sorry, but if your welfare is socialized, your healthcare socialized, and other items socialized, and you are convinced your country is NOT socialist?
Try to get a refund for those 6 years of your life.
Socialized =/= socialistic. Socialistic would mean only government can have healthcare. Socialized means private companies can do it, but government has to provide it too. We do have a lot of private healthcare businesses, but they have to compete with basicly free government system. They still make money by having reasonable prices and better service.
For example if I want my teeth checked/fixed I can get to a waiting list for "free" (it costs around 40€ unless you are poor enough to get it free) dentist and wait for months (emergencies like chipped or just quick pain patching of course get in right away) for basicly just health focused job. If I pay about 120€ I can go to a private dentist today or tomorrow and get the same thing done.
P.s. Our schooling is socialized too, so no need for that refund :) Have fun with your student loans.
Socialism is a form of government where the workers own the means of production, this is not the case in finland. Private property is still a thing in finland, so we are a capitalist democracy, but with strong social programs.
Kuupe Juuri nain.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
market socialism describes Finland pretty well...
Who is watching in Finland’s 100th birthday?
Lol you mean 100th anniversary of independence?
@@fridolfgranq same thing
@@Bicholover5487 Aye my bad but that was like a year ago 😂
How does one *watch* a birthday?
I'm finnish and dying about Sawami 😂😂😂🤣
Charles IX was Sigusmund's uncle, not his nephew. And Sweden was also neutral during the Cold War. Other than that I loved the video. Thanks, keep up the good work!
Easy to mix up who's the uncle and who's the nephew when its the first time you hear of them, just hope he puts in a annotation soon
Regarding the unions one never heard of... I moved from Germany to Sweden after 7th grade. I had learned a fair amount about the Hanseatic league in History class, and the Kalmar Union was briefly mentioned. Then, it was the other way around when we got to about the same time period in later high school history.
I feel like you pronounced Suomi and Novgorod incorrectly to piss people off.
+Preußische Soldat leave my narrator alone. He does the best he can
Suibhne you just said my, then said hid as in u ? Can someone enplane this please
Explain
And his
Preußische Soldat ohhhhhh... Nevermind
My great great grandparents Simi immigrated to the US from Finland @1900. I’d love to learn why they did that. I’m coming to visit someday.
I don't have a lot of Finnish ancestry but it's still there I have more Eastern European, Spanish ancestry , West and East African ancestry than Finnish but I'd like to still consider Finnish history my history.
Simi is common family name here where I live.
pls animated history of poland pls
Charles wasn't Sigismund's nephew. He was Sigismund's uncle.
I know. That was about as bad as Vikings making Bjorn Ironside the nephew of Harald Fair-hair instead of his mother's grandpa.
>resistance was light at best
Nope, swedes feared the finns and tought they were witches. Even today finns have a robust and strong build that would have been pretty overpowered in the age of sword and axe. Since the finnish language and culture still exist they must have fought back and won. Hell they even have their own god, prayers and symbols of war and a unique code of honor(Like in Kalevala, where it is stated that the bow is a weapon of cowards and the fighter with the longer sword can strike first). Finns are no joke, never have been
exactly, viking runes and stories tell about many bloody conflicts against Finns, battle of herdaler as an example.
Love from the United States of America to Finland! 🇺🇸❤️🇫🇮
in finland we EAT the reindeer
And castrate them by biting it off!!!
tri_otto gaming I am Finnish And I Dont
Ayan Gamin` Fin me too
It is not most popular beat anyway.
Kiitos.
Jonne V nii
:)
Heksa 09 pelaa parempi se ku saksa
Jonne V kiitos
08:33 say Sweden was part of Western allies? Sweden was just as neutral as Finland....
I have heard of the Kalmar Union. I know that it was named after the Swedish town of Kalmar. This union was between the areas of Finland (like Abo, Reval and Narva) as well as the south of Norway (Akershus, Agder and Tingvalla) this union was both of trade and military. This union occurred after a Danish proposition because they feared that the Holy Roman Empire wanted to take Hamburg (a significant Danish settlement at the time). Norway feared the Danes would attack if they disagreed and had a lot of soldiers occupied in the British Isles and other colonial efforts. The Swedes wanted support because they feared the Teutonic Order and Novgorod would attack Visby in Gotland. The whole alliance was really built because of fear of outside attack.
when will you do Poland you said you would do one 2 months ago
Love to Finland from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷wish I could visit one day!! 💛
Animated History of India or China?
Those would be cool.
those both have ultra long and complicated histories, so it'd be quite hard. Maybe choose a more focused topic, like the Mughals Or the Qing.
So mini series on China and India? Is that what this thread is suggesting? Because I don't know about the rest of you wonderful people from around the world, but I wouldn't mind that, not at all.
Sincerely,
An ignorant American.
Dr. Dank India series needs 10 seasons
+AV from India Really? Well then that should be long and interesting. Cool.
Bonus to finland is that they have a very good education system that is one of the best in the world and they pay their teachers so well.
Finland is on the top in many other subjects as well.
Animated History of Poland!!!
Will Mckenzie Agreed
The Hanseatic League is actually pretty famous here in Germany because there are still the so-called "Hansestädte" (e.g.: Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, etc.).
Will there be an Animated History of England or Wales?
I am pretty sure tho that only parts of Germany, Poland, Netherlands and Baltic were in the Hanzestad. As in only certain city's and the surrounding countryside. For example not the entire Netherlands were part of it.
animated history the Hanseatic League would be cool too!
I find the Finnish people to be fascinating, they are like a separate race and are generally very tough and clever people
You mean different humanoid species or what? 😄👽
Finns are the Dwarves of the Nordic countries :tough, grumpy, industrious and proud.
Swedes are men, Danes are hobbits and Norwegians are the elves. (Icelanders are those elves that went beyond the sea and never was heard of again)
(Note: this is a joke playing on stereotypes. I do not think any nationality are less or more than human)
Why do some people keep on calling Finland, and other Nordic countries "socialist"? Our economies are mixed, but lean towards free market and capitalism. "Socialist" countries would be former Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, PR China etc.
You okay Patrick? "FINLAND"!!!!!!
christchurch was justified
Da Cabbage The winged hussars!
Ruotsalaiset pyyhki suomen muinaishistorian.
@Bob pyyhki itänaapurikin paljon
Suomi on paras
Juuri näin
Bob mie oon puoliksi savolainen ja puoliksi pohojolainen
Bob niin vaan meidän paskaa setää