Moscow, Helsinki End ‘Finlandization’ Pact
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HELSINKI, Finland — This country and Russia signed a political treaty Monday that dissolves a 1948 agreement limiting Finland’s role in Western Europe and obliging it to help defend the Soviet Union against attack.
The post-World War II treaty ruled out Finland’s membership in the European Community and created the term “Finlandization” to describe a weak country accommodating itself to a strong one.
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