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The "Greater Finland" map is actually an accurate map of Sweden before Russia attacked Sweden in the war of 1808-1809 and Sweden lost this one third of its territory to Russia. This lost part of Sweden became a country in 1921 under the name "Finland", when it became independent from the Soviet Union. (The word "Finland" is actually the Swedish name for this former Swedish region.)

Thus, the map is historically correct (more or less), just like Absolut Vodka's map of Mexico before the U.S.-Meican war of 1848. The only difference is that the Absolut Vodka depicts an historically correct map WITHOUT having to try to be insulting by changing the name of the country.

Posted by Peter | April 6, 2008 | 05:36 am | Permalink [Edit]
 

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