Finnishization

English Etymology From en Finnish ization. Noun - the act or process of making Finnish. en 1996 Stanley G. Payne A History of Fascism, 1914–1945 University of Wisconsin Pres 9780299148737 311 The society advocated Finnishization, an end to Swedish bilingualism, and a barrier to Swedish “contamination,” positing the existence of a Finnish race that mixed Nordic, east Baltic, and Finnish ethnic elements. en 2001 Jukka Siikala Departures: How Societies Distribute Their People 9789529573240 The Finnishization of the East has surpassed even the dreams of the Greater Finland propagandists. en 2012 Heikki Eskelinen The EU-Russia Borderland: New Contexts for Regional Co-operation Routledge 9780415552479 173 No secret was made of the Finnic cultural roots of Karelia, and indeed the Finnishization of the Soviet Karelian Republic was, for some time, officially promoted as an instrument of modernization and administrative development.