I was recently talking with a Russian friend of mine, and he told me that Finland is actually Slavic. His reasoning was that Russia and Finland share a long border and a lot of history
Please don’t burn me at the stake I’m just the messenger D:
I know next to nothing about this and just wanted to see if there was any truth to what he said from a cultural or historical standpoint
Lmao, what? There are more reasons to consider Russia Finnic instead (very little and very flimsy reasons).
only about 1-2% of russia’s population speak finno‑ugric or other uralic languages natively.
I was referring to the fact that a large percent of Russian population is descended from assimilated Finnic tribes (and yes, it is a very flimsy reason).