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Russia and Sweden have been fighting since Viking times, but the relationship has been complex, there has also been very close cooperation. Swedish vikings wer
by Grustaf 5y ago
Russia and Sweden have been fighting since Viking times, but the relationship has been complex, there has also been very close cooperation.
Swedish vikings were probably instrumental in founding the Russian state, and Peter the Great took much inspiration from Swedish administrative traditions when creating a new bureaucratic system, etc.
- tclover 5y agoYeah but in the modern history Russia didn't show any interest of military conflict with anyone
- Grustaf 5y agoWell, even as a Swedish russophile I still have admit that they were spying quite heavily on us during the cold war, including with submarines. Then lately there's Crimea, Donetsk and probably Georgia. Of course it's nowhere near to what the US and some of its allies have been doing, but it's not nothing. Still, the narrative that Finland, or even Central European countries should be worried is absurd.
- CRConrad 5y agoFinland 1809, Crimea 2014, and the whole of Eastern Europe in between. But, sure, "Russia didn't show any interest of military conflict with anyone". We're not supposed to accuse people of being trolls, but: For someone I'm not supposed to accuse of being a troll, you sure do sound a lot like you just happen to be posting from one of Putin's troll factories.