Red side in the Finnish Civil War

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The Red side in the Finnish Civil War was the socialist and revolutionary faction, composed largely of workers and tenant farmers, that fought against the conservative White forces in 1918.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf belligerent force
political faction
alsoKnownAs Finnish Reds
the Reds
armedWing Red Guards
capitalClaimed Helsinki
casualties tens of thousands including executions and famine in camps
commandStructure People’s Delegation War Department
conflict Finnish Civil War
country Finland
endTime 1918-05
goal establish a socialist republic in Finland
overthrow the conservative Senate of Finland
governmentForm Finnish People’s Delegation
hasPart Finnish Red Guards
headquarters Helsinki
historicalPeriod post–World War I conflicts
ideology Marxism
revolutionary socialism
socialism
language Finnish
leader Ali Aaltonen
Eero Haapalainen
Kullervo Manner
notableEvent Battle of Helsinki
Battle of Tampere
opponent German Baltic Sea Division
opposedTo White side in the Finnish Civil War
partOf European revolutionary wave of 1917–1923
politicalSupport Social Democratic Party of Finland
religionContext largely secular
repressionAfterDefeat executions of Red prisoners
internment in prison camps
result defeat
socialBase industrial workers
landless rural laborers
tenant farmers
startTime 1918-01
status defunct
supportedBy Bolsheviks
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
linked to: Russian SFSR
surrenderedTo White side in the Finnish Civil War
territorialControl southern Finland
linked to: Southern Finland
usesSymbol red flag

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Reds (Finnish Civil War) alsoKnownAs Red side in the Finnish Civil War
subject linked to: Reds
White Terror in Finland opposedTo Red side in the Finnish Civil War
Eero Haapalainen politicalAlignment Red side in the Finnish Civil War
Suomen punakaarti partOf Red side in the Finnish Civil War
White forces (Finnish Civil War) enemy Red forces (Finnish Civil War)
subject linked to: White forces
linked to: Red side in the Finnish Civil War
White (conservative, anti-socialist) opposedTo Reds (Finnish Civil War)
linked to: Red side in the Finnish Civil War