Finlandization
Sign in to savethumb|right|Urho Kekkonen and [[Leonid Brezhnev in 1960 during Kekkonen's state visit to the Soviet Union.]]
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Origin and international usage
- Finnish perception
- Historical background
- Paasikivi doctrine
- Self-censorship and excessive Soviet adaptation
- Censorship
- End of Finlandization
- Finlandization in other countries
- Ukraine
- Mongolia
- Taiwan
- References
- External links
thumb|right|Urho Kekkonen and [[Leonid Brezhnev in 1960 during Kekkonen's state visit to the Soviet Union.]]
Finlandization () is the process by which one powerful country makes a smaller neighboring country refrain from opposing the former's foreign policy rules, while allowing it to keep its nominal independence and its own political system. The term means "to become like Finland", referring to the influence of the Soviet Union on Finland's policies during the Cold War.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Finlandization” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.