ABSTRACT
Finnish nationalism emerged after the eastern part of the Swedish Realm had been incorporated into the Russian Empire as the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1809. A number of radical nationalist organisations appeared after Finland’s independence in 1917 and the 1918 Civil War, in which the White troops, aided by Imperial Germany, crushed the Red forces supported by Soviet Russia. A new wave of Finnish fascism appeared in 1941, when Finland allied with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union. In 1942, the Federation of the Finnish Realm was founded as an umbrella organisation of fascist and national socialist movements. After the war of liberation, the Peasant Army of Finland marched to the Finnish capital as victors in high spirits. The Patriotic People’s Movement, which stems from the same basis as the great popular uprising of 1930, takes as its ultimate objective the creation of a nationally, both internally and externally, strong Finland.
