Nato, Sweden, Vilnius, Ukraine etc.

[Anomalocaris]

The russians only had bad experience with finland during one war.   During the second russo- finnish war the experience was very good for Russia.  it was mostly “just frown a little, and the fins will trip over themselves to curry favor with the warlord in kremlin”.   Hence the word “Finlandization”.

Finland’s total casualties (not counting civilians): 225 000

Russia’s total casualties (same caveat): 944 000

Boru

yes, and in the end Finland was Finlandized.  Throughout the Cold War, although Finland was never communist, and always had a nominal a democratic form of government, it was more reliably compliant to Moscow’s wishes than many of Moscow’s Warsaw Pact satellites.