It has been a hundred years since the\u00a0Finnish Civil War<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Battle of Tampere<\/a>, which ended at the beginning of April in 1918. In Tampere, there has been a great deal of talk this week about this topic. At the University of Tampere, Finnish president\u00a0Sauli Niinist\u00f6<\/em>\u00a0gave a speech about reconciliation; at the Vapriikki Museum Centre, historian\u00a0Teemu Keskisarja\u00a0<\/em>strongly criticized post-war actions\u00a0like hasty executions and prison camps. At an event for non-fiction writers, journalist\u00a0Hannu Koskela<\/em>\u00a0interviewed history researcher\u00a0Tuomas Hoppu<\/em>, who was the expert behind Vapriikki’s\u00a01918 exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hoppu<\/em>\u00a0said he was sorry that people have once again started to argue about the name of the war. From the very beginning, Finns have used many names, such as\u00a0Civil War<\/em>,\u00a0Internal War, Liberation War, Revolution<\/em>,\u00a0Red Riot,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Class War<\/em>. Academics have often used the phrase the\u00a01918 War in Finland<\/em>. Both\u00a0Civil War\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Internal War\u00a0<\/em>are also interpreted as neutral. The\u00a0Liberation War<\/em>\u00a0was the name the Whites used, while the Reds use the\u00a0Rebellion<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Revolution<\/em>. The\u00a0Liberation<\/em>\u00a0conveyed the idea of freedom from Russian dominance, while\u00a0R<\/em>evolution\u00a0<\/em>emphasized the workers\u2019 struggle for power.<\/p>\n Especially in Tampere, the 1918 events continue to fuel a lively debate. These tragic events touched so many local families that we still need to obtain detailed, carefully researched information. However, the name issue should no longer be controversial: according to a recent survey, 75 percent of the respondents supported the use of a neutral name such as\u00a0Civil War<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been a hundred years since the\u00a0Finnish Civil War\u00a0and the\u00a0Battle of Tampere, which ended at the beginning of April in 1918. In Tampere, there has been a great deal of talk this week about this topic. At the University of Tampere, Finnish president\u00a0Sauli Niinist\u00f6\u00a0gave a speech about reconciliation; at the Vapriikki Museum Centre, historian\u00a0Teemu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}