I was recently talking with a Russian friend of mine, and he told me that Finland is actually Slavic. His reasoning was that Russia and Finland share a long border and a lot of history
Please don’t burn me at the stake I’m just the messenger D:
I know next to nothing about this and just wanted to see if there was any truth to what he said from a cultural or historical standpoint
Novgorod and Sweden had a race to conquer sweden back then. A lot of finnish tribes converted to orthodoxy before the swedish conquest. The russian ethnogenesis also included significant finnic components.
But no finns aren’t slavs.