I only learned about the Finnish Civil War recently, but death estimates are around 1% of the population killed in 3 months.
For comparison it took 4 years of meat-grinder trench warfare to kill ~2% of the UK population in WW1.
For comparison it took 4 years of meat-grinder trench warfare to kill ~2% of the UK population in WW1.
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Janne M. Korhonen
This BTW is my Exhibit A when I laugh at those who claim that Finland only managed to enact progressive policies because homogenous societies have higher trust, etc.
That gets the causality very much backwards. Trust between mutually distrusting societal groups was built by progressive policies.
That gets the causality very much backwards. Trust between mutually distrusting societal groups was built by progressive policies.
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