From Russia a shove, Finland joins NATO
Through the Cold War, Finland remained neutral, partly because of its 1,340 km border with Russia. Even when former Soviet bloc countries were queueing up to join Nato in the late 1990s, Finland chose not to - though the policy of neutrality was officially abandoned in 1994, when it joined Nato's Partnership for Peace and the EU in 1995.
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