On this day in 1918, the Finnish People's Delegation declared a socialist workers' republic (known "Red Finland"), at the start of the Finnish Civil War. The burgeoning working class movement was crushed by imperialist German forces.
Prior to 1917, Finland had been ruled as a Grand Duchy, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. With the collapse of the Tsarist state in the wake of February Revolution and a long-term increase in nationalist sentiment, Finland declared independence on December 4th, 1917, formally recognized by the Russian Bolsheviks on December 31st.
Due to industrialized Finland having a strong revolutionary labor movement, conservative and proletarian forces were immediately thrown into conflict.
Red Guard paramilitary units representing the labor movement found themselves in a cycle of escalation with loyalist "White" Guards, culminating in a mass uprising of Reds in Helsinki on January 27th, 1918, marking the start of revolution. The following day, the Finnish People's Delegation was formed by members of the Social Democratic Party. Bourgeois forces fled to Vaasa, where they set up their own "White Senate".
The war saw the Whites, under the leadership of General Mannerheim, receive support from the German Empire, which was more well-established than the Reds' primary ally, the newly-created Russian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Following an imperialist intervention by Germany on the side of the Whites in March 1918, the war ended in defeat for the Reds in May. Over 12,000 people perished from starvation and hunger while imprisoned in White-operated POW camps, and reparations were not paid to former victims of the White Terror until 1973.
Lessons of the Finnish Revolution of 1917–1918
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Wait am I understanding this right, Poor Things is a movie principally about an infant in an adult body,
spoilers, also pedophilia?
and a part of the movie is this infant discovering sex?
The Favourite is weird about sex too. wtf is your deal Yorgos Lanthimos, Genuinely wtf
Yes, this is exactly what the movie is about, although it's presented in a "woman goes on a sexual journey to self-empowerment" wrapping
Like, the ostensible theme of the movie is about how men control women and their sexuality in our society, but really it's about a literal toddler in an adult's body doing what you said in your spoiler. People who enjoyed this movie will get mad at you for this interpretation and accuse you of not understanding metaphors or being a prude or something though
Is it any wonder so many people hate Hollywood and think of them as pedophile freaks when they make movies like this? The director is completely aware of the content he filmed for his movie. Both he and the author of the original work are men, I can't help but think how horny they were to create this story
Like they could have made the same movie, with the message they wanted, except an old lady gets put in a young lady's body and does literally the same thing, and it'd all be the same, except it wouldn't because the one they made is
exaaactly!