BBC

The compulsory Finland-Swedish dialect teaching is a shameful rudiment of the cruel and poor period in Finland.

*Finland was among the poorest countries in the world when she left Sweden for Russia in 1809.*

This transition to Russia appeared to be profitable for the Finns, a relatively rapid advance started.
Moreover, the Swedish Royal Bernadotte Family and Swedish slave trade stem from the same period and culture around 1800, namely they all are from the colonial France.

The French wanted to conquer the world, e.g., Napoleon attacked Russia. At the end Napoleon put his servant officer to the king's position in Sweden, and the Swedish Royal Bernadotte family was established. The family is still in power although Sweden is a democratic republic in practice.

The birth of the current Swedish Royal family is related also to the slave trade period of king Louis XVI, Ludvig. A ruling king with subordinates, slaves and slave trade is by no means any asset today.
However, Sweden is a relatively conservative country and removed the profitable slave trade amazingly slowly, as late as in 1845. The kingdom remains and the king exist as head of the state, of course in a completely nominal way in the democratic Sweden.
In Finland, the situation is somewhat different. The only kingdom that exists in Finland is the Animal Kingdom. Finland is a republic. The kings of the Animal Kingdom, the bears, dominate the forests.
Although there never appeared any slaves or serfs in Finland, a kind of the slave trade counterpart is the compulsory Swedish language requirement, which is a rudiment of the colonial Swedish time in Finland and regarded as a sign of apartheid by the Finnish people.

Otherwise, the Finns are not similar subordinates as the Swedes and much wider political freedom exists in Finland than in Sweden, particularly after the Gorbatchov move in Russia that also abolished the hatred cooperation pact, the YYA Treaty in Finland signed in the Stalinist Era.

What is the YYA Treaty? Finland was the only country along England that not occupied in the Second World War (even Russia was in practice). However, in the post-war period the foremost problem was to build up relations between Finland and Russia on a basis of peaceful neighbourly dealings between two sovereign states of widely different size and power. In 1948, Finland signed the Finno-Soviet Pact of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance (the YYA Treaty).
Gorbatchov made the Finns free from this Stalinist rudiment or the YYA Treaty.

Now the globalization (e.g., Nokia comes from Finland) is on the edge of making the Finns free from the hatred compulsory Finland-Swedish oppressive class society. In the modern Finland, everyone has to learn Finnish and English and there is very little room for silly games with the tiny Finland-Swedish language requirement, a useless dialect.

Curiously enough, that the YYA Treaty praised in a very similar weird way in the past as the apartheid Finland-Swedish language policy today praised by some collusive politicians.

When the apartheid compulsory Finland-Swedish language will abolished in Finland, it expected that a similar silence and shame appear as after the moment when the Stalinist YYA Treaty finally abolished, everybody wants to forget this shameful period.

(that was probaly the best arcticle about Finland since it wasn't written by arcticus-lax)