Yes, as a Finn, I can confirm the underlying hatred for Russians that a large percentage of Finns have. Partly it is based on our history with Russians. Large part of it, however, is naivety around the EU and all the MSM narratives. There’s incredible amount of blind faith when it comes to trusting the media and authorities in Finland.

Maybe it is because we haven’t had totally corrupt rulers for a long time because we generally had relatively strong Christian values as a society in our past.

But those values have quickly eroded away and now wokeism and statism are our new values.

And the war in Ukraine has given Finns an opportunity to show their fear and hatred towards Russia.

But there’s hope, because the silent majority of Finns is still only partly brainwashed and people as starting to see the lunacy everywhere.

I haven’t seen any news about that incident in our media. (But then again I don’t follow MSM very closely.)