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Europe correspondent Isabella Higgins in Finland

In Finland, memories of a bitter war with Moscow never faded. Some fear history will repeat itself

Finland might be a famously neutral nation, but beneath the surface is a country scarred by painful memories of war, and a fear of history repeating itself.

"This area has been under rule from Russia and Sweden … so we know conflict," says Anne Sorsa-Vainikka, a war-history tour guide based near Lappeenranta, close to the Russian border.

"When we got our independence, then we knew we needed our own army."

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