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Finnish Civil War: A hellish conflict
This is Part 2 of a two-part series that started with Finnish Civil War: The Background. It was a war of child soldiers, terror squads, and prison camps. How could this happen in a country where a strong Social Democrat … Continue reading
Posted in History, Military History, World War I
Tagged Baltic Sea Division, Finnish Civil War, German Empire, Helsinki, prison camps, Red Guards, Tampere, Viipuri, White Guards
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Finnish Civil War: The Background
This is the first of a two-part series on the Finnish Civil War. Once upon a time there was a country of vast boreal forests whose scattered inhabitants spoke a strange tongue more closely related to Hungarian than to Scandinavian … Continue reading
Posted in History, Labor History, Military History, World War I
Tagged February Revolution, Finnish Civil War, Finnish language, Finnish Social Democrats, History of Finland, October Revolution, Red Guards, Russo-Japanese War, Treaty of Brest-Livotsk, Tsar Nikolas, Vladimir Lenin, White Guards
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1870 to 1918 