Perhaps a Swede can clarify a bit of Cold War history my father told me when I was a kid.
In front of the Opera in Stockholm stands a statue of Karl XII, the king who unfortunately lost the battle of Poltava, consigning the Baltic countries, incl. Finland to Russian rule.
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