Red Finland

The Finnish civil war was one of the first of "Scandinavian" wars for about 80 years (Finland is technically a Nordic country). It was also one of the first wars against socialism and communism. Europe watched as the future was about to get decided. The reds fought against the more powerful, better trained and better led white army. They could have easily won the battle of Tampere, but were led by the incapable general Hugo Samela. But what if the battle was fought with a far greater general.

Battle of Tampere
Early morning, March 5 1918, Enio Ambramovich Rahja is picked up from the front to behind their lines to disscuss a defense of the city of Tampere, which was thought to be attacked by a large white force. He accepted the trade of leadership with the incapable leader Hugo Samela, who would be transfered to the smaller front that Enio Rahja fought at. Three days later a full scalled attack was launched to capture the city and it's large industrial zones. The battle was fierce and the change of tatics happened often. The leader of the white army Carl Mannerhiem (June 4 1867-April 2 1918) who would later be captured and shot by the red army. On April the 4th, the Red army managed to hold off the Whites and pushed further into their territory. April was the time for major breakthroughs for the red army and at the battle of Vaasa the reds won a strategic and mental win and it was a blow to the whites who were continuing to loose power and their men were dying around them. The final blow was struck at the lapland mines (the battle of Lapland) in September 21 1918. The generals gave in and the war was declared over on the 3 October 1918. The army then set out in capturing any white genreal that got away and executed them.

The First Premier of the new Finland.
After the war the peoples delegation had to stop all revolts and centralise the new socialist-communist nation they were leading. The man at the head of the planing was the powerful general Ali Aaltonen. He was declared leader of the "revolution" against the capitalists whites and he took ultimate power over the government at the end of 1919. The beginning of 1920 saw Ali Aaltonen declared the people's delegation the new and reformed Socialist Party of Finland. Doing this seperated the communists from the government and he had to fix the problem. In late June he declared there would be a voting system put in place, (much to the displeasure of the Soviet Government in Russia) and in late August he officially delcared the Socialist Workers Republic of Finland. He then put the voting system in place. The first ever elections were a three way race between the Socialist party, the Communist party and the Soviet Party. The Soviet party was created just before the elections (1921) and their main goal was to have Finland become a member of the Soviet Republic. The results were made public in mid December 1921 with the Socialist, led by Ali Aaltonen, getting 53% of popular votes.