Finland

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FINLAND-a country larger than Britain, but with a population halt the size of London. A country of forests and lakes and gránité and scenery of breathtaking beauty. Much of it on the same latitude as Alaska, but blessed by the Gulf Stream with warm summers and temperate winters. Tucked away in the north-eastern corner of Europe, but enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. Claiming internationaí fame with her architects and design, her athletes and music, and the craftsmanship of her exports, from the highly-sophisticated products of her forests to icebreakers, from paper-making machinery to glass and ceramics and fashion. A Scandinavian country with a unique language of great richness, and a remarkable literature, from the Kalevala epic to the new wave of poets and novelists. The only completely independent state emerging from the First World War still conserving its originál constitution, with a continuity of law and justice and free democratic institutions... Tovább

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FINLAND-a country larger than Britain, but with a population halt the size of London. A country of forests and lakes and gránité and scenery of breathtaking beauty. Much of it on the same latitude as Alaska, but blessed by the Gulf Stream with warm summers and temperate winters. Tucked away in the north-eastern corner of Europe, but enjoying one of the highest standards of living in the world. Claiming internationaí fame with her architects and design, her athletes and music, and the craftsmanship of her exports, from the highly-sophisticated products of her forests to icebreakers, from paper-making machinery to glass and ceramics and fashion. A Scandinavian country with a unique language of great richness, and a remarkable literature, from the Kalevala epic to the new wave of poets and novelists. The only completely independent state emerging from the First World War still conserving its originál constitution, with a continuity of law and justice and free democratic institutions untouched for centuries. Losing two disastrous wars against her great Soviet neighbour, yet, with Britain, the only European countries engulfed in the Second World War, whose peoples wholly escaped occupation. FINLAND, a flourishing Western democracy on the borders of Eastern Europe, balancing prosperously on a tightrope of good relations with East and West, her neutrality recognized and honoured by all. Vissza