
Etiket: Finnish
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Victims of the Viipuri prison massacre during the Finnish civil war, 1918. As the city fell to anti-communist forces, fleeing Red Guards slaughtered over 30 political prisoners rather than let them be freed. The White Guards murdered over 400 Russians in response after capturing the city (4955×3576)
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1928 portrait of Finnish general-statesmen Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, widely considered to be Finland’s most influential modern leader & their only Field Marshall in history. He oversaw victory in the Finnish Civil war & as Defense Chief during WWII, later becoming President of Finland (4108×3461)

![Finnish soldiers at the defensive VT-line during the Soviet Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive in June 1944 [4624 × 4561]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/vebp020uln7h1-scaled.jpeg)

![German, Italian, Japanese, Romanian, and Hungarian military attachés visit the Finnish Front, 5 April 1943 [481×500]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/z3x4m8k7915h1.jpeg)

![Nazi-allied Finnish troops in a trench on the Leningrad front, the most destructive siege in human history, 1942. [494×660]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/kzkzq8fzb5zg1.jpeg)



![Carelian children on the knees of Finnish soldiers. Picture taken by soldier A. Peltola during the Aunus expedition, part of the Heimosodat. Aunus, Karelia. 1919 [800×488]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IHJkGKGS49DKJnEM-bMxMTLu34hQwz441Nlr0rUKO1A.jpeg)




