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
Finland was part of the Russian empire so there are some Slavic influences on Finnish culture, but there are probably even more Swedish influences since it was also part of the Swedish empire at one point. Linguistically it’s neither Slavic nor Germanic.