Heikkilä, IKE Unforgettable Ilkka Kanerva

The political history of Finland, the newest member of the NATO military alliance since the Second World War, is a special one. After surviving as the only unoccupied country among Nazi Germany's fellow warriors, Finland balanced for years between maintaining its independence and its room for manoeuvre under pressure from its large border neighbour, the Soviet Union. The political tactic was, on the one hand, to pledge friendship and to go as far as possible along the lines of its neighbour,...