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Pagan remnants are attested in Poland as late as in XVI century for example. Also compare to christian persecution in Japan, even after over 200 years some secret pockets of christianity still remained and emerged when the antichristian edicts were liquidated during Meiji era. European pagans lasted 600+ but it wasn't enough.
The Sami people still exist and are pagan today in scandinavia.
Most Sami are either lutheran or orthodox. Their paganism still do exist in minority but it's because they live on absolute periphery of Europe and while they were never christianised by force by organised state action, even the private effort of Norwegian evangelists almost wiped it out in XVIII century.
Ya theyve been persecuted a lot as an ethnic minority too im just pointing out there are still pagan Samis around today