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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 German Empire supported White Finland, the precursor of the modern Finnish state, during the civil war against Red Finland and its paramilitary army, the Red Guards. Thus, Germany launched a military campaign in southeast Finland on 7 April 1918 with the landing of Detachment Brandenstein (German: Abteilung-Brandenstein) in Loviisa.
Television in Finland is one of the main media outlets in Finland. ... Day the Universe Changed, The ... Red Caps (2011) Reinikainen (1982) Reitti 44 ...
The Red Guards (Finnish: Punakaarti, IPA: [ˈpunɑˌkɑːrti]; Swedish: Röda gardet) were the paramilitary units of the labour movement in Finland during the early 1900s. The Red Guards formed the army of Red Finland and were one of the main belligerents of the Finnish Civil War in 1918.
A day later, they were joined by the Russian volunteers from Kuru, who were pushed back by the 1,650-men squad of the Swedish colonel lieutenant Harald Hjalmarson. On 18 March, the Red positions were pounded by heavy artillery fire, and they decided to leave Ruovesi. The Reds retreated south, where they soon joined the Battle of Tampere. The ...
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The city had been under Red control for 11 weeks since the beginning of the war. The German Baltic Sea Division landed in Finland on 3 April and entered the Helsinki area eight days later. In the city centre, the defending Reds did not have defensive lines or barricades but were fighting inside single buildings and blocks, which the Germans ...
Red Guards [5] Lottery of Huruslahti: 90 February (after Battle of Varkaus) White Guard: The name lottery refers to the alleged logic of executing one in 10 of the accused. Pori Lyceum massacre: 11 6 February Red Guards [6] Haaga executions: 45 12 April Baltic Sea Division: The only massacre by the German troops in Finland. Kuurila train ...