Speaking of the Hungarians, the most common expression for the Germans in WW1 and 2 used by the British, Churchill, etc., was “Huns.” Where did that come from anybody know? Germans aren’t Hungarians or descendants of Attila the Hun. At least that I’m aware of.
About the Finlanders. They win my admiration for their great stand against Russia in WW2. They fought them to a standstill in the snow, and won...for a while, until Russia eventually defeated them by overwhelming numbers. Great fighters, the Finns.
All I can figure out is they left without women and acquired the greater part of their genetic background by purchasing/stealing brides ~ this is much like what the ancient Greeks and Trojans seem to have thought women useful for ~ slavery and trade goods (just in case anybody says "it's just not probable for the Huns to have captured brides".
Of course it's "probable".
In doing whatever it was they were doing the Huns even lost their original Chinese language and picked up a creole of vaguely Indo-European and Uralic-Altaic origin.
Because the Huns did this within the scope of history we are able to ascertain how "culture" can be transmitted from generation to generation without respect to the nations of origin, or the race of the participants.
Churchill is the guy who is responsible for calling the Germans "Huns" ~ he did it as an insult.
The Germans thought it quite inspirational.