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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Got Dune Part 2 tickets
I'll see it in theaters and I'll have a great time, but dammit I wish someone else got to do Dune so it could be fucking weird. It's not bad or anything but the visual aspects just aren't Dune to me, it should be colorful, borderline pyschedelic. The whole thing in general feels a bit too grounded, like an overcompensation for the Lynch movie
Hoping and praying somebody eventually has the guts to do an animated adaption of the later books.
I have only read the first book but I'll be honest, I kinda pictured it like the the movie portrays the world. I feel like I may have missed something reading the books
I read the books before seeing anything but the 2000 sci fi channel miniseries is the closest to how I imagined it with a little bit of the Lynch movie being closer in regards to the spacing guild guys. It's easy to torrent if you wanna check it out, it's also a 3 part mini series so it has time to be closer to the book. In 2003 they did Dune Messiah and Children of Dune as well. The production value is cheap but the art direction is closest to my imagination.
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