Russia-Ukraine Flash Report 30 MAR 2023 14:45 PDT - Welcome to NATO, Finland
Added 2023-03-30 21:45:39 +0000 UTCIn a unanimous vote of 276-0, Turkey's Parliament ratified Finland's membership into NATO, ending a nine-month approval process from the 30 member nations.
With the vote, Finland becomes the 31st country to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Finland shares a 1,300-kilometer-long sparsely populated border with the Russian Federation and lost about 10% of its national territory during the 1939 Winter War with the Soviet Union. The Winter War was launched as part of the August 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Stalin and Hitler, which partitioned the Western and Eastern European continent between the two dictators.
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"Fun" part of Finland USSR war was, iirc, Finns were quite neutral until Soviets decided to "return" some territory, but turned out that Finns are not pushovers at all
Ancient Good
2023-03-30 23:17:15 +0000 UTC
