News like this, shows what?
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There was no such thing. 1948 peace agreement settled all questions between Finland and USSR. In 50s Finland already was one of rare western capitalist country friendly to USSR. Finland even often supported USSR in league of nations and later UN on different international questions. Trade between countries was pretty intense in nearly all spheres from groceries and furniture up to nuclear power plants (one of Finland NPPs was built by USSR) and heavy machinery.
I think you'll find Karelia was in conflict. Parts gained and lost by the Finnish.
Main reasons for war, dating back longer, and continuing longer than direct Finnish wars.
The population Russian/Finnish
That was before WWII, in 1920 and 1939-1940 wars.
It also continued after WW2 until 1956. After the Continuation war in 1944.
It is almost exclusively, the other was Communism, the reason for regional conflict.
Somebody started shipping them off to the Gulag
No, it never continued after 1944. In 1944 Finland, for obvious reasons break with axis and make a deal with Britain and USSR about ceasefire. It even have some fights with ex-ally Germany in Lapalandia in the beginning of 1945. In 1948 full peace deal was signed and everything was settled. In 1950s Finland already sell cheese and furniture to USSR, buying in return wheat, fuel, wood and machinery.
There was no any even verbal tensions between USSR and Finland after 1948.
Fall of USSR was a huge disaster for Finland, population wealth fall significantly at the time. Later, it was kind of restored, but now, it fall down again, because of stupid sanctions forced by Western masters on Finland. Finns fear that this NATO shit will make things even worse, however, nobody asked Finns about all that shit. Interesting, that here we still have a noticeable amount of imported Finland goods, despite all that insane crap. Normal people will always find ways to circumvent or don't give a fuck to stupid decisions or laws of authorities.