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The Finnish Civil War [a] [b] was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Red Finland) during the country's transition from a grand duchy ruled by the Russian Empire to a fully independent state.
The Battle of Helsinki was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought on 12–13 April by the German troops and Finnish Whites against the Finnish Reds in Helsinki, Finland. Together with the battles of Tampere and Vyborg, it was one of the three major urban battles of the Finnish Civil War
Ongoing - Finnish Civil War. 6 March – The Finnish Army Corps of Aviation, a forerunner of the Finnish Air Force, is founded. The blue swastika, Viking in origin, is adopted as its symbol, in tribute to the Swedish explorer and aviator Eric von Rosen, who donated the first plane. [1] 15 March – Finnish Civil War: The Battle of Tampere ...
Finnish Civil War (1918) White Guard ... Aseveljet vastakkain – Lapin sota 1944–1945 [Brothers in Arms Opposing Each Other – Lapland War 1944–1945] (in ...
The Finnish Civil War was a conflict in 1918, which killed more than 38,000 people (about one percent of the country's population), ...
Finland saw significant political violence from the end of the Finnish civil war until the Mäntsälä rebellion. The Red Guerrilla Battalion of the North under the Communist Party of Finland, would fight Finnish border guards during the Pork mutiny. [4] Minister Heikki Ritavuori would be shot dead at the door to his home in Helsinki in ...
Fallen Red Guard fighters. The Battle of Tampere was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought in Tampere, Finland from 15 March to 6 April between the Whites and the Reds.It is the most famous and the heaviest of all the Finnish Civil War battles.
The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (FSWR), more commonly referred to as Red Finland, was a self-proclaimed socialist statelet in Finland during the Finnish Civil War from January to May 1918. The FSWR was established by the Finnish People's Delegation , a government formed by members of the Social Democratic Party to rival the existing ...