to understand the degree of retardation even the mainstream finnish historians admit that its all bullshit  > seyn never called his policy russification. his aim was to unite finland politically with the other parts of russia we have seen that the reform of the official language did not aim at preventing finns from using their native language in private or cultural life.536 leafing through seyn's documents, it seems that his aim "was not russification, it was making the order keeping machinery loyal and strong"  > it has been pointed out that the aim of the programme was not to destroy the finnish autonomy, which was actually useful for the government, reluctant to be bothered with the minor details of finnish local administration. the aim was to submit finland to the russian government and to prevent her from acting against the imperial interests  the leader of fennomans yrj-koskinen refused to join anti-russian resistance because he rightfully thought that the swedes were bigger threat to the finnish national interests. he even said that finland is partly responsible for the "russification" because it kept demanding more and more privileges  > we, for our part, are trying to develop a little too far the inner independence that had begun with the favorable contribution of alexander the second. questions about own trade ticket, neutrality, personal union were raised one after the other. instead of trying to quietly hide from the rest of the world the autonomous benefits that we enjoyed even then, even in cramped conditions, this politique d'effacement (policy of remaining invisible) began to feel burdensome and degrading. europe would like to know that finland was a separate state
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