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Support in Republic of finland to join NATO has doubled since just one year agone, with a majority now voicing back up for the showtime time since polling started in 1984.

Finnish Business organisation and Policy Forum EVA has collected data twice each yr for almost xl years to track attitudes and values, which includes politics, economics, foreign relations, the surround and well-being. Chief amid those interests remains whether Republic of finland should join NATO.

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Results from Fall 2021 constitute only 26% of the population supported joining NATO, simply following Russia's invasion of Ukraine that number has leapt to threescore% back up for NATO membership. The same percentage of Finns back up taking a decision this yr on the thing.

  • MP of the Finland's Christian Democrats Paivi Rasanen holds a bible as she speaks to media ahead of a court session at the Helsinki District Court in Helsinki, Finland on January 24, 2022. - The trial against former interior minister and Christian Democrats leader Paivi Rasanen over four charges of incitement against a minority group has started on January 24, 2022. - Finland OUT (Photo by Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT (Photo by ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

    MP of the Republic of finland's Christian Democrats Paivi Rasanen holds a bible as she speaks to media ahead of a courtroom session at the Helsinki Commune Courtroom in Helsinki, Finland on January 24, 2022. - The trial against former interior minister and Christian Democrats leader Paivi Rasanen over 4 charges of incitement against a minority grouping has started on January 24, 2022. - Finland OUT (Photograph by Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT (Photo by ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images) ( )

  • MP of the Finland's Christian Democrats Paivi Rasanen holds a bible as she speaks to media ahead of a court session at the Helsinki District Court in Helsinki, Finland on January 24, 2022. - The trial against former interior minister and Christian Democrats leader Paivi Rasanen over four charges of incitement against a minority group has started on January 24, 2022. - Finland OUT (Photo by Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT (Photo by ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

    MP of the Finland's Christian Democrats Paivi Rasanen (R) holds a bible every bit she arrives with her married man Niilo Rasanen to attend a court session at the Helsinki Commune Court in Helsinki, Republic of finland on January 24, 2022. - The trial against quondam interior minister and Christian Democrats leader Paivi Rasanen over iv charges of incitement confronting a minority group has started on Jan 24, 2022. - Republic of finland OUT (Photo by Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT (Photo by ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images) ( (Photo by ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images))

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    NATO Secretary Full general Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media briefing at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Th,. Russia issued a warning Friday to Finland and Sweden almost any attempts to join the 30-member alliance. (AP)

Historic back up for joining NATO has remained low, with the previous peak in Autumn 1998 showing just 28% back up.

The study conspicuously cited Russia'due south invasion of Ukraine equally responsible for the shift in opinion.

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"The alter is beyond comparing, both in terms of size and speed," EVA noted. The survey sampled over 2,000 responses from across a range of ages 18 to 79.

"The change in attitudes observed in the survey is a result of the Finns' reaction to the change in their security environment, which seems to have left the old security policy philosophy, which had dominated in Finland for many years, without a foundation."

The report said that Russia has shown it "does not respect its neighbor's sovereignty" and made existent the "terrible nature of a defensive state of war fought on a country'due south own territory."

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Finland and Russia share a particularly hostile history, well-nigh notably culminating in the Winter War of 1939 during which the Soviet Union attempted to invade Finland at the start of World War II.

The Soviet Spousal relationship suffered devastating losses estimated between 126,000 and 168,000 troops dead or missing. Finland lost just shy of 26,000 troops.

The Soviet Union cited security concerns and demanded borderland territory from Finland, even establishing a puppet Finnish Communist regime known as the Finnish Democratic Republic, which the Soviets used as justification to invade Republic of finland.

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Only the Soviets recognized the Finnish Democratic Republic, equally is the case with the Donetsk People'southward Republic and Luhansk People'south Commonwealth.