Editing Finlandization (section)

===Historical background===
Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from [[Imperial Russia]] with support of [[German Empire|Imperial Germany]] in 1917; participation in the [[Russian Civil War]] (without official declaration of war) alongside the [[Triple Entente]] 1918–1920; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the 1939 [[Winter War]] against the Soviet Union, in which the Finns thwarted the Soviet attempt to conquer Finland, albeit with the cession of 9% of Finnish territory; and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with [[Nazi Germany]], the only power able and willing to help Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, which led to Finland's [[Continuation War|re-entry into the Second World War]] in 1941.