MATTHEW WILLS By the Editor – With the prospect that Finland is likely to join NATO shortly the author traces its relationship with the Soviet Union and Russia in the last century and up to the present day. A 10 minute read. Introduction It can be said with virtual certainty that Finland’s greatest hero between 1918 and the present was Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (b. 4 June 1867, Villnäs Finland d. 27 January 1951, Lausanne, Switzerland). In 1933 he was promoted to the newly introduced honorary rank of Field Marshal. In his memoirs, initially published in Finnish and Swedish, Marshal Mannerhei…
