by Iiro Nordling (Author)
Finland was exceptional country during the cold war. People could travel and bring ideas from Sweden and elsewhere. Finland had a skinhead scene already in the 1980s. Soviet block Eastern European countries had mixed feelings towards Nazism. For Finns they were comrades in Arms who helped us in critical time in 1944. War Veterans respected Germans for theirair support. Soviet Union troops were gaining upper hand, but largely due to help of air support provided by the Nazi Germany Finland survived and was not occupied. This explains why many Finns saw Nazism mainly as a form of anticommunism.
First skinheads in Finland were primarily anticommunists. Immigrants came into Finland in 1990s. Skinhead movement was transformed in Finland as elsewhere into a White Power movement. In Britain anti-immigration sentiment had been there since the 1970s.
This book tries to explain Finland's position and peculiarities of Skinheads there.