The Finnish Prime Minister coined what would eventually become the Paasikivi-Kekkonen Line, a Finnish realpolitik to keep the Soviet/Russian enemy at bay. It was based on the awareness that Finland was weak, that it could not count on the help of democratic countries for various reasons, on the need to speak frequently with the Russians, to maintain the Russians’ trust in Finland, and on the need to sacrifice part of its economic independence and part of its own freedom and that of its citizens.
