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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 after their defeat in the war. [6]
In the beginning of the war the Red Guards took the view that the wounded of both parties should be treated in the same way. Although the Red Guards were in many places, e.g. in the central front, sympathetic to the Red Cross, the leaders of the Red Guards units that fought in Harmoinen, i.e. the Lahti Red Guard Regiment, remained unequivocally ...
The Finnish Red Cross started its hospital plan in 1919, partly because of the effect of the Finnish Civil War and the Red Cross's function at the time, to help the people wounded or injured in the war. Right from the start, the hospital was prominently associated with general (later field marshal) Mannerheim, who served as the chairman of the ...
Finnish Civil War (1918) ... Aseveljet vastakkain – Lapin sota 1944–1945 [Brothers in Arms Opposing Each Other – Lapland War 1944–1945] (in Finnish). Helsinki ...
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
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.
After his experiences during the Finnish Civil War, Vannas became extreme right-winger. [1] [2] During World War II, he was asked to lead, among other things, the nazi Finnish Realm Union, which included forty professors, leading artists and businessmen. Vannes' term as chairman ended when he was assigned in February 1944 as the chief physician ...
The Tammisaari camp was a concentration camp and prison in Dragsvik, Ekenäs in Finland.It was set for the Reds captured by the Whites in the 1918 Finnish Civil War.The concentration camp operated from May 1918 to 15 September 1918 when the majority of the captured Reds were released on parole.