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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Genocide, runaway inflation, people drinking from lead cups, child labor returning, ah yea we ainβt learned shit from the last century baby
The any% time for those categories is way down but ok
Not the lessons Iβd have had us learn but I must concede youβre right I fear lol
Milton freeman fruitlessly spinning his controller because he doesn't know the credit-default-swap glitch that cuts your run down by 15 minutes.
Sweet mother of mercy
The lead is used as a seal for the vacuum part on the bottom of the cup, under a metal cover. It would never get into the cup unless you did so on purpose.
Theoretically, the lead could fall out of the bottom if the cover came off, but then you're at risk for dust or accidentally ingesting particles from touching it.
Idk I saw some people doing tests for them and they failed it. Idk if itβs manufactured rrror in those particular ones or someone just trying to get clicks but honestly wouldnβt chance it with late stage capitalism being what it is personally
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What's going on with lead cups?
Those over hyped Stanley cups turned out to fail lead tests