"The words of the Russian ruler Alexander I at the Diet of Porvoo in 1809 on the elevation of the Finnish people to the rank of nations were the most insidious words ever committed to memory by the Finnish people."
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Axel Olof Freudenthal
Axel Olof Freudenthal (12 December 1836 Siuntio - 2 June 1911 Helsinki) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish philologist and politician. He was a linguist, founder of the Finnish Swedish movement and ideological mentor of the Swedish People's Party of Finland, in whose name the Swedish People's Party's highest decoration was awarded for generations until the 21st century.
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