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 1917β1918
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"Why do you have a grenade launcher?"
"I have an appointment with insurance"
"But why do you have a grenade launcher?"
*slower and louder* "I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH INSURANCE"
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Finna might use my abundant free time to bring about a situation where an insurance company lawyer has to calmly explain to a judge exactly how the insurance company is practcing medicine without a license in violation of federal law but htat's probably just a revenge fantasy realistically.
Also the fucking mask on this cpap machine is gender coded, I guess so you don't get the wrong gender of air and turn gay or something.
HATE. HATE.
Healthcare in America is telling someone who is not a medical professional "It's not your fault" repeatedly while they give you a medical device that was not prescribed to you on the orders of an insurance company that views you as a liability to be eliminated.
The "Mother I crave violence" meme but I'm posting through it because if I come in contact with literally any person officially involved in this clusterfuck I may unwittingly or inadvertently make an actionable threat of violence so it's better to just not make any calls right now.
most medical equipment is made for men proportions so itβs nice they at least offer an alternative for women
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