questions by Thrawniter answers by Pacifica
1. What are the major parties in 1962 Finland?
1. All of the parties in Parliament are as follows.
National Coalition, Agrarian Union, Finnish People's Party, Finnish Rural Party, Social-Democratic Party, Swedish People's Party, Åland alliance.
National Coalition, Agrarian Union, and Social-Democratic party are the big three.
2. What subideologies do those parties have?
2.
Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue [Social Democracy]
Suomen Kansanpuolue [National Liberalism]
Maalaisliitto [Centrism]
Suomen Ruotsalainen Kansanpuolue [Liberal Conservatism]
Suomen Maaseudun Puolue [Populist Conservatism]
Kansallinen Kokoomus [National Conservatism]
Isänmaallinen Kansanliike [Fascist Populism]
3. Will there be skeleton content for those parties coming into power in TT3?
3. Yes, there will be.
4. Will there still be the extremists coups in TT3 after loosing the War against Western Russia?
4. The fascists no longer coup the government - they take power Hitler style. The communists coup the government.
5. Will there be more skeleton content for the Finland-Onega relations?
5. Probably not.
6. What are the different coalition options?
6. The coalition matrix is a 9x9 grid with different relations between each party. Lots. I'm writing a script to generate optimal coalitions from given parliament arrangements.
7. Since when is Finland an Einheitspakt Observer?
7. Since the formation of the Pakt.
8. Which parties would try and join another faction?
8. None.
9. Which parties will be able to become a full member of the Einheitspakt?
9. Everyone but SocDems and Rural Party.
10. How will the Bormann-Finland relations change in TT3? Will it be combined with more prerequisites?
10. Couldn't tell you at this stage.
11. Who leads the National Coalition at game start?
11. Niilo Kosola
12. Who leads the Agrarian Union at game start?
12. Johannes Virolainen
13. Who leads the Finnish People's Party at game start?
13. Pekka Malinen
14. Who leads the Finnish Rural Party at game start?
14. Veiko Vennamo
15. Who leads the Social-Democratic Party at game start?
15. Erkki Lindfors
Only four of those five can become PM in 1963, however.
16. Why is there a "Swedish People's Party" in Finland?
16. There's an enormous Swedish-speaking minority in Finland, and Swedish has co-equal status as a state language. The Swedish People's Party has always been relevant in Finnish politics as sort of a cooperationist party for whatever government.
17. Who leads the Swedish People's Party?
17. Johan Otto Söderhjelm
18. Who leads the Åland alliance?
18. Evald Häggblom, he is also their only MP.
19. When will the Fascist be able to take power?
19. IKL has outsized influence in the government despite only having a dozen seats or so. In the fascist failstates, IKL gets ministers/a PM/a President, and they slowly erode democracy from there.
20. How will the Communists be able to take power?
20. In TT3, coup. Post TT3, civil war.
Post-TT3, the only way to really get a Finland with a fascist President is to get the civil war against the communists and win as the Whites.
21. Will the Sweden-Finland borders be able to change?
21. Sweden can seize Åland in the case of Red Finland [also probably post-TT3].
22. Will Sweden be able to influence the Swedish People's Party?
22. RKP doesn't work that way. It represents the interests of Swedish-speaking people in Finland, not the Swedish government. It's a big-tent liberal/conservative party with both weird far righters and Peace Oppositionists.
23. How will the Civil War start? How will the Civil War play out?
23. Civil War starts with a communist uprising during the war with the Murmansk People's Republic.
24. Can democracy survive the Civil War?
24. If the Civil War happens [will be rare], IKL will always take over.
25. Will the Finnish Civil War be part of TT3?
25. No.
26. Will there be a Proletarian Nationalist Party in Finland?
26. No.
27. How will the Swedish People's Party react to a Proletarian Nationalist Sweden?
27. RKP will be consistently pro-Nordic cooperation, otherwise ProlNat Sweden won't really affect it much.
28. What are the main strains in the Finnish Communist Party?
28. Stalinism, with a trade-unionist/syndicalist minority.
29. Will there be more conclusions to the Finnish-West Russian War?
29. Seven possible outcomes, and 3 possible sets of borders.
30. Will Finland be part of a diplomatic crisis or a proxy conflict?
30. Yes, unsure if in TT3 or not.
31. What is the Murmansk People's Republic?
31. Russian nationalist state that rises up in an attempt to join with Russia as a reaction to Finnish ethnic cleansing in Karelia/repression of Russian speakers.
32. Will Finland have have unique subideologies?
32. No.
33. Are there any parties that have some weird ideas like the population doubling plan or a massive infrastructure project?
33. Not that I know of. Finland was never very politically radical in its ambitions. Finland did achieve its "weird idea" [Greater Finland] and it sort of didn't go well.
34. Will it be possible to create something like a "Northern Union" in the form of a GUI?
34. No.
35. Can Finland become Syndicalist?
35. Not in current plans.
36. What happened to Kekkonen?
36. Faded into political obscurity due to being a Peace Oppositionist in the ML.
37. When will the Murmansk People's Republic rise up? Will that be the start of the Finnish-Russian War?
37. 1964/65 or so.
38. How was Finland able to successfully ethnically cleanse East Karelia?
38. East Karelia was sparsely populated, and it had twenty years to do it.
39. Are there any parties that want to revert Greater Finland?
39. As in - return Karelia to Russia unprompted? No. There's certainly parties that regard it as a waste, though.
40. Is there an objective worst path for Finland?
40. White Finland victory against the communists and IKL dictatorship.
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