Originally Posted by
Asturias56
the Finns kept their western ways without any paranoia about the USSR "taking over" and profited as a conduit for two way trade
Actually, it wasn't that simple. The 1961 note crisis was a good example. There was always the possibility of invasion, and that threat was used by soviets to influence the internal politics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_Crisis
The way I see it, nothing has changed, ie Georgia, Ukraine.