Finnishization

Finnishization

English

Etymology

Finnish +‎ -ization

Noun

Finnishization (uncountable)

1. the act or process of making Finnish.
   • 1996, Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914–1945, University of Wisconsin Pres (ISBN 9780299148737), page 311:

     The society advocated Finnishization, an end to Swedish bilingualism, and a barrier to Swedish “contamination,” positing the existence of a Finnish race that mixed Nordic, east Baltic, and Finnish ethnic elements.

   • 2001, Jukka Siikala, Departures: How Societies Distribute Their People (ISBN 9789529573240)

     The Finnishization of the East has surpassed even the dreams of the Greater Finland propagandists.

   • 2012, Heikki Eskelinen, The EU-Russia Borderland: New Contexts for Regional Co-operation, Routledge (ISBN 9780415552479), page 173:

     No secret was made of the Finnic cultural roots of Karelia, and indeed the Finnishization of the Soviet Karelian Republic was, for some time, officially promoted as an instrument of modernization and administrative development.