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   From: anton.usenet@gmail.com   
      
   David Friedman kirjoitti:   
   > In article ,   
   >  James A. Donald  wrote:   
   >   
   >> And if they were "cautious" what were they cautious of?   
   >> What had an individual Finn to be "cautious" about -   
   >> other than that Finland might find itself under Soviet   
   >> occupation in the near future and he would be punished   
   >> for things he had said.   
      
   > One obvious alternative is that he feared the hostility of his own   
   > government if he did things that were seen as provoking a dangerous   
   > neighbor.   
      
   You have obviously not spent time in Finland. Even during   
   "Finlandization" years nobody had to fear being arrested, beaten up,   
   tortured, imprisoned, killed or anything like that. "Finlandization"   
   only covered the media and people who were public figures, and even in   
   these cases violence was not the means of keeping them in line.   
      
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