Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Matsayin Finland ya kasance mai rikitarwa. A cikin Yaƙin Duniya na II, Finland, bayan da ta sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Zaman Lafiya ta Moscow a 1940, duk da haka ta yanke shawarar kai hari ga Tarayyar Soviet a matsayin abokin tarayya na Nazi Jamus a 1941
, a cikin abin da aka sani a Finland a matsayin Ci gaba War. A ƙarshen yaƙin, Finland ta ci gaba da kula da yawancin yankunanta, duk da matsayinsu na asarar iko. Finland kuma tana da tattalin arziƙin kasuwa, ana cinikinta a kasuwannin Yammacin Turai kuma ta shiga tsarin kuɗin Yammacin Turai. Duk da haka, kodayake an dauki Finland a matsayin tsaka tsaki, Yarjejeniyar Finno-Soviet ta 1948 ta iyakance 'yancin aiki a cikin manufofin kasashen waje na Finland. Ya buƙaci Finland ta kare Tarayyar Soviet daga hare-hare ta hanyar ƙasarta, wanda a aikace ya hana Finland shiga NATO kuma a zahiri ya ba Tarayyar Soviet damar yin amfani da ita a cikin manufofin Finnish na waje. Ta haka ne, Tarayyar Soviet za ta iya yin amfani da ikon "mulkin mallaka" har ma da wata ƙasa mai tsaka tsaki. Koyarwar Paasikivi<unk>Kekkonen ta nemi kula da dangantakar abokantaka da Tarayyar Soviet kuma an sami ci gaba da cinikayya tsakanin kasashen biyu. A Yammacin duniya, wannan ya haifar da fargabar yaduwar "Finlandization", inda abokan kawancen Yammacin duniya ba za su ƙara tallafawa Amurka da NATO ba.