>sweden committed 3 crusades against finland

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>sweden lost their empire status and are currently weaker than any of their neighbours

>>78690395
I hope many Finns were killed.

>A completely unchristian, but perhaps more direct reason for, the Eriks crusade is mentioned by the author of the Eriks legend, only in passing. It was the Finns, he said, who had begun the murders, they had ravaged wildly in Mälardalen region, and it was therefore no more than right that they would suffer from Sweden's revenge.

http://popularhistoria.se/artiklar/erik-den-helige-och-svenskarnas-korstag-till-finland