Posted on 05/22/2024 1:23:19 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
One hundred years ago today, former Member of Parliament Edla Sofia Hjulgrén was shot during the Finnish Civil War.
At the time, Finland was still a Grand Duchy within tsarist Russia. When the Russian revolutionaries who conquered power in St. Petersburg in 1917 proved reluctant to agree to Finnish independence, the Finns just declared it, and a civil war ensued in the first months of 1918 — between Soviet-backed Red Guards and German-backed White Guards.
The Whites won a nasty war thick with atrocities on both sides. Although she was a pacifist, our Sofia Hjulgrén was among hundreds of Red supporters swept up after the decisive Battle of Vyborg clinched White victory. She was shot there — it’s Viipuri to the Finns, and Vyborg to the Russians — in the cemetery. The Soviets got Vyborg back in a subsequent war with Finland, and erected a monument there to the hundreds of victims of the Whites’ April-May 1918 Vyborg Massacre.....
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She was Finnished.....................
One dead communist. Well, it was a good start.
A typical civil war, then.
Yes.
My Finish friends always lauded that event. They said, because of it, there will never be Communist in charge of Finland.
Communism in Finland was finished forever thanks to this event.
Yep. Edla chose poorly.
Till they elected Sanna Marin, a socialist.
The executed communist in the story is literally from the same party as Sanna Marin, the last Prime Minister before this one. And it looks like this party has had the Prime Minister seat for about 2/3 of Finnish history since that time.
And before you say they are not communist, Yrjö Sirola, the founder of the Finnish communist party was a member in good standing for all of his life.
Finland is a nanny socialist state. They have no problems with socialism and its pervasive through their policies.
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