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A foreign policy of neutrality which made a smaller and weaker non-Communist country susceptible to the influence of the Soviet Union.

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  • In the cold-war era, "Finlandization" -- a term the Finns loathe -- became synonymous with a mildly coerced neutrality.
  • The Spirit of Yalta is haunting Eastern Europe and could bring about the "Finlandization" of Poland, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, the Baltic states.
  • So I certainly can't call the AH -- namely, the slow "Finlandization" of Britain after a Nazi victory on the Continent -- implausible on that level.
  • Once this announcement is made, other weaker Arab nations will uder extreme pressure to adopt policies that Ira approves of in the cold war we called it "Finlandization".
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