Russia sanctions has set Finland back ten years - Finally Russia occupies part of Finland

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The Finns did it all themselves, and with enthusiasm.

• Economic indicators are bleak: GDP is near zero, unemployment is steadily rising.
• It's currently at 10.8 percent—the highest since 1998.
• Last year, it was 9.9 percent. In the spring of 2022, it was just six percent.

Russia will occupy part (2/3) of Finland, says Stockholm prophecy.

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"The data is terrifying." Moscow has set Finland back ten years.

© AP Photo / Sergei Grits

MOSCOW, July 21 — RIA Novosti, Svetlana Medvedeva. A five-place drop in the IMD international competitiveness rankings to 19th place, while just four years ago the country was in the top ten, reveals Helsinki is reaping the fruits of its anti-Russian policies. RIA Novosti examines what has happened to Finland's economy and what its future prospects are.

Worse than the neighbors

The rating has worsened across all four key indicators: economic success, governance effectiveness, business efficiency, and infrastructure. The first indicator is the weakest in recent years. Overall, the country's score is at its lowest since 2016 and the most significant decline since 2010.

Other Scandinavian countries fared slightly better: Denmark ranked sixth, Sweden ninth, and Norway 18th. The list includes 70 countries in total, and Russia was not included.

"It's all shameful." The EU is divided over Russia.

July 1, 8:00 AM

The top three are Singapore, Hong Kong and Switzerland.

There are many problems

Finland's decline in the IMD rankings cannot be explained by a single factor. It's a combination of several factors: weak economic growth, declining productivity, an aging population, and a shortage of skilled labor, explains Ruslan Andreev, project manager at the Polylog consulting group.

"The share of the young population with higher education is only 40 percent, which is lower than in other Scandinavian countries," notes Mikhail Gordienko, professor at the Department of Sustainable Development Finance at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

This year, business efficiency has been the biggest drag on the country's standing. Investment and job creation are declining, and, as a result, development levels are declining.

Sanctions are lifted: the EU acknowledged its dependence on another resource from Russia.

July 16, 8:00 AM

In the spring, Swedish mining company Boliden announced plans to cancel billions of dollars in investments in the development of its copper-nickel mine in Sodankylä, northern Sweden. The reasons for this include an increase in the mineral extraction tax, an increase in the electricity tariff for the mining industry, and a reduction in the state subsidies Finland pays to companies covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

Economic indicators are bleak: GDP is near zero, unemployment is steadily rising. It's currently at 10.8 percent—the highest since 1998. Last year, it was 9.9 percent. In the spring of 2022, it was just six percent.

In 2025, more than 3,900 companies went bankrupt in the country—the highest number since 1996. And in the first quarter of this year, ten organizations went bankrupt every day.

The construction industry has been weak for four years now. Growth rates are low. Half of Estonian construction workers have already returned home from Finnish construction sites.

The decline in the IMD's governance performance indicator is due to government debt and deficit, high government spending, and the tax rate.

"Government agencies are operating reliably, but the apparatus is becoming more expensive and is having difficulty balancing the budget. There are trumped-up defense and security expenditures, imposed under external pressure," says Gordienko.

Last year, the European Commission even launched an investigation into Finland for exceeding its budget deficit. In 2024, it was 4.4 percent, and in 2025, it will be 4.5 percent instead of the required 3 percent.

In the spring, Finnish Finance Minister Riikka Purra warned of an "extremely difficult" situation with public finances: the government debt-to-GDP ratio was approaching 90 percent.

© AP Photo / Pavel Golovkin, Helsinki

Conscious choice

The break with Russia played a significant role in declining competitiveness. Finland's neighbor was a natural geographic advantage: a source of raw materials and energy, an export destination, transit point, and a regular tourist destination.

Electricity, oil, gas, forestry products, metals, and chemical raw materials were supplied to Suomi.

"We didn't expect such a set-up." Finland was horrified by Moscow's decision.

July 7, 8:00 AM

"The contracts were concluded on mutually beneficial terms, but the prices for hydrocarbon and electricity supplies to Finland were lower than on the global market due to logistics, low transportation costs, and what seemed at the time to be fairly strong trade relations," says Roman Danilov, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University.

The severing of relations with Russia not only deprived the country of access to energy resources but also led to a decline in economic competitiveness and increased unit production costs, as raw materials had to be replaced with more expensive ones. And this economic impasse is the result of Helsinki's own conscious choice.

© AP Photo / Sergei Grits

The Nuijamaa/Brusnichnoe border crossing on the Finnish-Russian border is closed.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Russia will occupy part of Finland, says Stockholm prophecy

• The Stockholm prophecy says that God will send the Russian army to punish Finland, causing a food shortage and no other countries to help Finland
• In World War II, the Finns relied on the Lord and prayed to Him for help
• The current generation no longer respects God and lives a holy life
• God will bring the Finns to their knees
• The Lord will again help those who repent of lawlessness and rely on Him
• A mighty prophet of God will arise to defend Finland and bring many to the LordA reformation will come to Finland, emphasizing obedience to the Word of God

 

Russia surprised decision-makers 

The Finnish Security Intelligence Service has given a statement to the Parliament's Administrative Committee in which it suspects that Russia has taken steps in Finland to prepare for and carry out military operations : " Measures that may be a matter of preparation for future influence in a crisis situation are constantly being observed. This may be the case in land transactions that do not appear to have any business logic or logic related to the normal use value of the property. However, a landowner acting on behalf of a foreign state may build structures on his property that the foreign state could use in a crisis situation, for example to close traffic routes or to house unmarked troops...

For example, all Russian citizens, regardless of dual citizenship, are obliged under Russian law to assist Russian security authorities. " 

(IL1., 3. and 5.11.2016 ) Minister of Defence Carl Haglund: "Russia has shown through its actions that, if necessary, Russia will use military force to achieve its own goals. "I think it's a serious situation and it has made many Finns think." 

( Yle TV news 20.5.2014 ) Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen: "Perhaps there has been a collective misunderstanding here, that we imagined that threatening with military force would no longer be the case, but unfortunately it is. This must be taken into account in the future." 

( Yle online news 7.5.2014) Director of the EU Intelligence Analysis Centre Ilkka Salmi: " EU and US intelligence were astonished by the unpredictability of the events in Ukraine. The crisis in Ukraine, which developed at lightning speed, surprised both the EU and the US intelligence service, the CIA ." 

(Yle 18.3.2014 ) Admiral Georgij Alafuzoff, Head of the EU's Military Intelligence: " The situation between Europe and Russia has become at least as bad as during the Cold War... ..There is a clearing of the differences, very broadly understood as war." (Helsingin Sanomat 14.12.2014 p. C7)  Commander of the Defence Forces, General Jarmo Lindberg: " The military activity of the great powers in the Baltic Sea region has tripled in a relatively short period of time . .. .. Lindberg admits that there is an ongoing cycle of armaments, a military escalation, in the Baltic Sea region. According to him, there is no end point in sight for the escalation ... ..

Russia has a very fast decision-making ability. It has a fast and significant ability to act and transfer its power within Russian territory." (IL 22.4.2016 )

Commander of the Defence Forces General Ari Puheloinen: "According to Russian thinking, this includes the fact that the state must have power and be listened to. The use of military force is part of this." (Ylen 24.5.2014 )

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov: Russia ready to cut ties with the European Union – " If you want peace, prepare for war ." (IL 12.2.2021 )

Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 21, 2021 : "We do not want to burn bridges, but if someone considers Russia's good intentions to be indifference or weakness, and sets out to set fire to or blow up bridges, then let them know that Russia's response will be asymmetrical, swift and harsh. Whoever organizes provocations against our most important security interests will regret it like they have never regretted anything so much . I hope that no one will try to cross Russia 's " red line " . Where our " red line " goes at any given time is something we decide in each case ourselves . " ( Yle , April 21 , 2021 and IL , April 21 , 2021 ) Seven months later , Putin gave a speech in which he criticized Western countries for continuing provocations and underestimating Russia 's " red line". So it happened that the EU was attacked with an asymmetric hybrid operation on the Polish-Belarusian border, driving large numbers of migrants towards the EU to cause chaos (Yle 8.11.2021 , YouTube 19.11.2021 ).

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Marija Zakharova, December 25, 2021: " NATO is relentlessly attracting Finland and Sweden to its membership. This has not gone unnoticed by Russia. It is self-evident that Finland's and Sweden's NATO membership would have serious military and political consequences and would require appropriate countermeasures from Russia. " (ILDecember 26, 2021)

President Sauli Niinistö in the New York Times: " Niinistö says in the article that he noticed that Putin had changed since they last spoke a month ago. 

– His state of mind, decision-making, and determination have clearly changed. Niinistö believes that Putin feels that he must seize the opportunity now. He says regarding the Ukraine crisis that it is difficult for him to imagine things ever going back to the way they were. " (IL 13.2.2022 )

Niinistö to CNN: " Putin has behaved very unpredictably. " (IL 20.2.2022 ) 

US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in her speech to the UN General Assembly on March 2, 2022: " Vladimir Putin continues to escalate the situation, he has put Russia's nuclear forces on alert and is threatening to take over Finland and Sweden. " (IS March 2, 2022 )

Putin's former advisor Andrej Illarionov : " Putin will not stop his plans to expand his homeland to the borders of Ukraine, but wants the Baltic states and Finland back, among other things...   ..Putin believes that Ukraine , Belarus , the Baltics , Finland and part of Georgia belong to him and his predecessors ...    .. From Putin's point of view, granting Finland independence was treason . " ( IL 2.8.2014 ) 

Turkey prevented the NATO Council from considering Finland's and Sweden's membership applications (IL 18.5.2022 ) 

Russian Foreign Ministry: Finland's NATO application will be responded to with a "military surprise" (IL 19.5.2022 ) 

"Russia announced that it will establish new military bases in the western parts of the country. This is a reaction to the NATO applications of Finland and Sweden... ..According to Shoigu, twelve new military units and divisions will be established in the western parts of Russia by the end of this year." (IS 20.5.2022 ) 

"According to the assessment of the Norwegian Defence Forces, Russia has returned to its Cold War-era bastion military doctrine, in which it would seek to control Northern Norway and a large part of Finnish Lapland in a crisis situation. The Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs has reached the same assessment." (IL 6.6.2022 )

Vladimir Putin justified the annexation of the Ukrainian provinces to Russia by saying that they were part of Russia during the time of Catherine the Great (1762–1796) , as were Savonlinna , Lappeenranta and Hamina in southeastern Finland ( Treaty of Turku 1743, IL 30.9.2022 ).

Finland is currently negotiating a bilateral defense cooperation agreement with the United States, and Russia intends to respond to the agreement, according to the country's state news agency Tass. Spokesperson Maria Zakharova of the Russian Foreign Ministry estimated on Wednesday that Russia would be forced to take "military-technical and other countermeasures" in a situation where NATO uses Finnish territory ( HS 4.5.2023 ).

Stockholm Prophecy Warns of Russia

The Stockholm prophecy says that the Russian army will march into Finland and Finland will have to hand over Eastern and Northern Finland to Russia.

Finland will lose the areas north and east of Kymijoki, Kuopio and Oulu.

There will be a shortage of food.

No state will help Finland then. Finland and Sweden do not have NATO security guarantees anyway.  

Lieutenant General Matti Ahola has told Ilta-Sanomat on 28.6.2016 p.4-5 that if Russia attacks, 
Finland will not be helped by NATO, nor by the EU, nor even by Sweden. 

According to Ahola : " The EU's joint defense is a pure paper tiger . Such a thing does not even exist ." 

The prophecy says that Russia will also advance to the mines of Kiruna and to the Atlantic coast of Northern Norway. The oil and gas deposits in the northern Norwegian sea area will come into Russia's hands (IL 29.11.2021 ). Even NATO would not be an obstacle to Russia's march to the Atlantic coast ( Yle 21.7.2016 , I L 2 1.9.2015 and 16.1.2017 ). 

The recipient of the prophecy, Yrjö Säkkinen, did not want his name to be revealed and that is why the recipient of the prophecy has been anonymous for a long time. The prophecy is known only as the Stockholm prophecy, because it was given in that city. The Bible also contains the book of Malachi, the real name of whose author is unknown. Yrjö Säkkinen lived and worked as a subway train driver in Stockholm. 

Now it will be exactly 30 years since the Lord gave this prophecy to Yrjö Säkkinen on 28.5.1984 and 70 years of peace with Russia. The prophecy was distributed in Finland on c-cassette recordings starting in 1985 ( here is the original recording ). The prophecy was brought to Finland by Rauha-Lilja Ben-Kiki and was further disseminated by Rauha -Lilja 's brother Olavi Syväntö. They live in Israel. The Stockholm prophecy is widely respected in Christian circles because it is believed to have been given by the Lord.

Peace-Lilja Ben-Kiki 12.3.2015

Shortly before Rauha-Lilja Ben-Kiki received the prophecy , she took to heart a place in the Bible that was specifically related to this prophecy. That place was Job 5:20, which is underlined.

Job 5:17-18, 20:" Good is the portion of him whom God gives. Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. He wounds, but he also binds up; his hand strikes, but it also heals... .. in famine he will deliver you from death, in war from the edge of the sword ."

Prov. 3:11-12: "My son, do not reject the Lord's discipline, nor be discouraged when he corrects you; for the Lord disciplines those he loves, just as a father disciplines his own son."

Deut. 32:39: "...I send death and I make alive; I strike and I heal; all things are in my power."

Ps. 33:19: "He will deliver them from the dangers of death and will keep them safe through the years of famine." 

At the time of the prophecy , the Soviet Union was still in existence, but the prophecy already called the country Russia. It can be said that the prophecy foreshadowed the collapse of the Soviet Union, which occurred in 1991. Otherwise, the titles in the prophecy are according to the year of the year, which is common for prophecies anyway, unless the Lord wants to highlight some specific future change, which in this prophecy was the return of Russia.

Yle reported on 30 August 2016 : " Russia is an even greater risk for Finland, the Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs warns. Finland should avoid large investments in Russia... ..Russia is using more aggressive means than before to achieve its foreign policy goals. In addition to these, the country's internal developments also pose risks. According to a study by the Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs, Russia's changed foreign policy requires Finland to be more resilient to crises than before..."


The Stockholm Prophecy has three main messages

1. The Finns have fallen into a sinful life and the Lord is sending the Russian army to discipline the Finns.
2. Finland is forced to cede Eastern and Northern Finland to Russia. The crisis also results in a food shortage in Finland and food prices rise very high.
3. A powerful prophet of the Lord will arise in Finland, defending the Finns and causing a great spiritual conversion through his actions.

The Stockholm Prophecy is attached at the end of this article in written form and can also be read in this document . Originally, Yrjö Säkkinen read the prophecy on the C-cassette (sides A and B). There are written versions of the Stockholm Prophecy distributed on the Internet that have been shortened and the words changed compared to what Säkkinen spoke on the C-cassette. It is better not to trust them, but if necessary, listen to the original recording on YouTube ( video ).

Amos 3:7-8: " Surely the Lord God will do nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. The lion roars, who will not fear? The Lord God speaks, who will not declare it? "

Turku Cathedral

What is interesting about the Stockholm prophecy is that it continues the same message that Archbishop Gustaf Johansson said he received from an angel in Turku Cathedral in 1920. 

Johansson says he saw the following: " One late dark evening in 1920, Gustaf Johansson was on an evening walk. He walked past the cathedral and noticed it brightly lit. Curious, he went inside to see what the occasion was so late. When he arrived inside, in front of the altar of the church, in the central aisle, stood a huge bright angel, with a drawn sword in his hand. 


Sent by God, the angel announced that Finland would face three severe judgments:

"First, the tip of the sword will be wet, second, the sword will go halfway, and third, the sword will go all the way to the hilt. Your country will experience three such sword blows and see three great wars, when the sword will be struck against Finland. One blow has already come, but two are yet to come. Finland will withstand these two blows of the sword, but the third will sink deep and by the hilt, unless Finnish Christians return to the Bible and are filled with the Holy Spirit and repent in all that can be repented of .

Another blow of the sword

After Finland had been an independent state for a couple of years and had suffered from civil war during World War I, an angel came to tell the future of the Finnish people. It would be disciplined three times with ever-increasing punishments. The first small stroke of the sword was the civil war during World War I. The second stroke of the sword would be bigger, as World War II was. The third stroke and an even more serious war would still be coming. The Lord did not give the prophecy to Archbishop Johansson directly, but sent an angel to tell it to the Archbishop in the main building of the Lutheran Church, Turku Cathedral, which means that the angel's warning would also apply to Johansson himself and the entire Finnish people, including the Lutheran Church. The Stockholm prophecy from 1984 specifically tells of the third stroke of the sword, from which Finland would never recover. Most of the country would fall under Russian rule and the part of Finland that remained independent would suffer great losses due to severe food shortages.

The third blow of the sword

The angel's warning and the Stockholm prophecy severely rebuked the Finns for rejecting the teachings of the Bible and for their lack of repentance. The angel's message calls on the Finns to be filled with the Holy Spirit, which means rejecting sinful acts by the power of Christ's Holy Spirit, in order to live. These New Testament words remind us that without repentance from sins there is no life.

1 John 3:4: " Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, for sin is the transgression of the law of God. "

Rom. 8:6-8, 13: " The mind of the flesh brings death, but the mind of the Spirit brings life and peace. The mind of the flesh is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God... ..For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of your sins, you will live. "

John 12:50: " And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So what I speak, I speak just as the Father has commanded me. "


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