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The war has been assigned several designations according to different political and ideological viewpoints. War of Independence (Finnish: vapaussota) was used during the war by both sides to express the fight for liberation from capitalism for the Reds and freedom from Soviet Russian influence by the Whites; Civil War is the term increasingly employed by the reconstituted social democrats ...
Finnish Civil War (1918) ... Military history of Finland; ... [Brothers in Arms Opposing Each Other – Lapland War 1944–1945] (in Finnish). Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä.
The Civil War claimed a total of about 37,000 victims, of which about 75% were Finnish reds. The other victims were Finnish whites, Germans and Russians. From a psychological and material point of view, the Civil War was the most destructive event in the history of the Finnish nation, traumatizing the population and splitting it in two.
Despite the bitter civil war, and repeated threats from fascist movements, Finland became and remained a capitalist democracy under the rule of law. By contrast, nearby Estonia, in similar circumstances but without a civil war, started as a democracy and was turned into a dictatorship in 1934. [76]
The only massacre by the German troops in Finland. Kuurila train murders: 22 19 April Red Guards [7] Vyborg provincial prison massacre: 30+ 27 – 28 April Red Guards [8] Vyborg massacre: 360-420 28 April – 3 May White Guard: Victims were predominantly Russian. Jämsä executions: 70-80 April – May White Guard [9] Hollola executions: 200 ...
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.
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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 ...