Finnish Civil War
- Lauri Nurminen (1906–2009) — White Guards.
- Aarne Arvonen (1897–2009) — Red Guards.
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Famous quotes containing the words civil war, finnish, civil and/or war:
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)