Finland IS afraid of Russia, have no doubt, or at least they used to be. It's well known that it affects their foreign policy quite a bit.

Hopefully if there can be a visa free union between Russia and the EU relations will be normal.

Still, they surely kicked out "Ivan" in the Winter war... Hehe....

And losing Karelia was almost their own fault for not stopping the war when they had the original territory back.

In school history they said that the Russian soldiers had thought that Finnish peasants and workers would welcome the Red army. So they had not expected any serious defense and that was the reason for the almost unbelievable defeat. Surely the officers could not have believed that, so it's surprising they went into a war like that, insufficiently prepared.

Lately it seems Finland has lost interest in getting Karelia back though.