Only a couple of years later this group of countries broke up when first Poland and then Czechoslovakia left the IMF amid the worsening Cold War. Finland however remained in the IMF and later, when Sweden finally joined, a Nordic constituency was formed.
Membership of the Bretton Woods system can be regarded as one of the most far-reaching decisions that Finland took in trade and the entire field of foreign policy in the decades after World War II. Membership of the IMF was one great step on the path the country chose in its international economic relations.