Finland

Finnland is a nation in northern Europe. It borders the Soviet Union.

Joseph Stalin invaded Finnland, a Russian province before the Russian Revolution, in 1940. Finnland resisted Soviet conquest, but took heavy losses and was forced to make unfair concessions. A year later, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in World War II, Finnland aligned itself with the Axis and invaded formerly Finnish Soviet territories. It suspended this invasion when the Race's Conquest Fleet invaded Earth in 1942.

In the frigid polar regions and under German protection, Finnland was allowed to remain independent under the terms of the Peace of Cairo. Finnland was dominated by Germany until 1965, when Germany was defeated by the Race in a second war. Finnland, fearing that the Soviets would return without a powerful country to protect them, invited the Race to establish a permanent military base within Finnish territory, much to the horror and outrage of Vyacheslav Molotov.