ABSTRACT
The Nordic Resistance Movement [Nordiska motståndsrörelsen, NRM], which had a Finnish branch until 2020, strives to establish a pan-Nordic national socialist state. The idea of including Finland in that state proved to be controversial, however, as it ran against the historical particularities of Finnish nationalism, which have portrayed the country and its inhabitants as an ethnoculturally, if not racially, distinct unit within the Nordic region. This chapter investigates how the NRM's Finnish chapter sought to balance such a legacy with the organisation's strategic objective by looking at how it constructed an understanding of Finnishness and the Finns and argued for the inclusion of Finland in a pan-Nordic state.
