'Not Welcome': Finnish Protesters Criticise Trump-Putin Summit

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Source: The Guardian

Helsinki 'not neutral ground' despite its history of hosting key cold war meetings The Finns are proud of hosting some of the cold war's most historic summits. But many in the country will tell you: don't call Helsinki "neutral ground".

Protesters came out on Sunday to attack both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin before the controversial summit between the two leaders in the Finnish capital.

"Not welcome," read one sign, held by Hemmo Siponen, showing a cartoon of Trump and Putin embracing. "Fuck you both," read another carried by two young women.

"It doesn't feel good to have them here," said Anna Bruun, a civil servant who said she was opposed to "great power politics" playing out in her home city. The country's largest newspaper has put up English- and Russian-language street adverts saying: "Mr President, welcome to the land of free press."...More..

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/15/not-welcome-finnish-protesters-criticise-trump-putin-summit

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Finland has established its western credentials in the years since the fall of the Soviet Union, with EU membership and an enhanced partnership with Nato. "Since the end of the cold war, the policy has been that Finland is part of the west. We have built a society that is very solid and unified, world class in terms of many rankings, as a way of getting out of the geographical bind we found ourselves in."
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- Helsinki Protest Focuses On Rights Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit.

[forgotmylogin]

1. I suspect the Russian Cockholster isn't going to get

any of his preferred blond blue-eyed Finnish and Norweigian immigrants anytime soon!

[LeftishBrit]

3. And I bet he wouldn't like them if they came

They may be melanin-challenged, but they are also sane and progressive. It's notable that the American state with the most Scandinavian immigrant influence, Minnesota, is also the only state to have voted for the Democrat in every presidential election since 1976! But I doubt that there'll be too many Scandinavians moving to the USA while he's president!

[LeftishBrit]

2. Good for them!

We thought we were hard done by in Britain, by having American Psycho as a visitor; but poor old Finland have to deal with both American Psycho and The Godfather at the same time!

[appalachiablue]

4. Some image!?

[mitch96]

5. ""Not welcome,""

Finland and Russia have a long history of sour relations.. Russias wars have always caught Finland in the crosshairs. A Finn I worked with told me their is no love lost between the two countries. Putin would LOVE to annex the Baltic states and Finland too! NATO and the EU be damned..
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[mr_lebowski]

6. FINLAND FINLAND FINLAND!!!