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I lived in Russia since early childhood till 2007.

When I tell foreigners abroad that Russia has an aggressive, militarist culture in a way an unrepentant Germany was, I am often called a nazi, and a rusophobe.

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Welcome to Finland, where being in good graces ("neutral") with the Soviet Union and Russia was turned into a state-level art form.

For nearly a century speaking ill of the Big Angry Bear Next Door was forbidden - not by law, of course - it just wasn't a thing you did and also kept your political career.

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