Finnmark becomes part of Finland

Have Finnmark become part of Finland.

Could Finland get the borders shown on the picture below? How could these borders come to fruition?
Finnland including Finnmark.png


For some decades surrounding 1900, many in Norway feared the Finnish immigration and Kven people in Northern Norway, coining the term "the Finnish danger". For a period, interests in Norway wanted to annex parts of Lapland (most notably the "arm" protruding from the north-west and into Storfjord) as buffer zones. The controversy around Finns in Norway subsided over time, and the land claim never materialized into open conflict.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland–Norway_relations
 
The easiest solution would be for the Russian Empire to conquer Finnmark from Norway (/Sweden-Norway) in a war sometime in the 19th century. The area could be then joined in to the Finnish Grand Duchy, and be a part of Finland when it gains independence. It would be more difficult to get those exact borders, I think. I'd say that if Russia/the *USSR/etc for some reason takes a part of Karelia from Finland later, it would want parts of the Arctic coast as well, to push its Arctic presense westward.
 
The easiest solution would be for the Russian Empire to conquer Finnmark from Norway (/Sweden-Norway) in a war sometime in the 19th century. The area could be then joined in to the Finnish Grand Duchy, and be a part of Finland when it gains independence. It would be more difficult to get those exact borders, I think. I'd say that if Russia/the *USSR/etc for some reason takes a part of Karelia from Finland later, it would want parts of the Arctic coast as well, to push its Arctic presense westward.
Assuming bolded happened then something resebling OTL Finnish territory ceded to Russia or Russian analogues.

Assumin Russia had integrated the coast of Finnmark into itself, how would the previous inhabitants be treated?
 
Assuming bolded happened then something resebling OTL Finnish territory ceded to Russia or Russian analogues.

Assumin Russia had integrated the coast of Finnmark into itself, how would the previous inhabitants be treated?

Is Finnmark a part of the Finnish Grand Duchy or a part of Russia directly? In the first case, the locals would be seen as under the laws of the Grand Duchy, and treated more leniently, whereas if the area is governed directly from St. Petersburg the conditions for the locals might get worse. In either case, in the 19th and early 20th centuries the Sami would be treated poorly, at best they could hope to be left alone. If Finnmark is a part of the Finnish Grand Duchy, it would be interesting what the position of Norwegian-speakers would be within Finland. It is difficult to see Norwegian becoming another language that is recognized as official, at this time, but in practice it would have to be tolerated and given some local status up north.
 
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You could easily alter any of the peace treaties between Denmark and Sweden from 1645 to 1720 include a transfer of northern Norway. Maybe the Swedes do a tad better during Charles X’s first Danish war and extend their control north from Trondheim to include all the Nordlandene fief.
 
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The best POD would simply be the Russians demanding it in 1814 against allowing Sweden to annex the rest of Norway.

I tried to read up on the Norwegian settlement in Finnmark, and while the was significant new settlement of Norwegians in the 19th century, but the Norwegian settlements goes back almost a millennium, and Norwegians seem to already to have been in majority by 1600.

The Kvennish (Finnish) settlements seem to have come in two waves a minor one in the 1740ties and a major one in the 1860ties following a Finnish famine.
 
If the Soviets won the Winter War and made Finland into a Soviet satellite state, then (presuming the rest of WW2 occurs roughly on schedule) in 1944-1945, during the liberation of Finnmark from Germany, the Soviets could have integrated Finnmark into communist Finland. This could be justified as compensation to Finland for the annexation of Petsamo. With Soviet troops already there it could be accepted as fait accompli.

Of course, Stalinist influence would be dystopic for Finland in comparison with the independence of our timeline. But with different post-Stalin leadership of the USSR, Finland could get independence again afterward, or have a Titoist-like separation.
 
If the Soviets won the Winter War and made Finland into a Soviet satellite state, then (presuming the rest of WW2 occurs roughly on schedule) in 1944-1945, during the liberation of Finnmark from Germany, the Soviets could have integrated Finnmark into communist Finland. This could be justified as compensation to Finland for the annexation of Petsamo. With Soviet troops already there it could be accepted as fait accompli.

Of course, Stalinist influence would be dystopic for Finland in comparison with the independence of our timeline. But with different post-Stalin leadership of the USSR, Finland could get independence again afterward, or have a Titoist-like separation.

Norway was officially an Ally. Stealing land from a member of the alliance the USSR was fighting for would have been considered rather too confrontational in both the USSR and in the West in 1945. I don't believe Stalin would be ready to go that far at this point.
 
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