Ka cika wannan jumlar: Yaƙin Duniya na Ɗaya ya ba Finland zarafin samun 'yancin kai. Finns sun nemi taimako daga duka Daular Jamus da Bolsheviks don wannan dalili, kuma a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 1917, Majalisar Dattawan Finland ta ayyana 'yancin kai na ƙasar. Sabuwar gwamnatin Bolshevik ta raunana a Rasha, kuma ba da daɗewa ba, yakin basasar Rasha zai ɓarke. Shugaban Bolshevik Vladimir Lenin ba zai iya ba da sojoji ko kulawa ga Finland ba don haka Soviet Rasha ta amince da sabuwar gwamnatin Finnish makonni uku bayan da ta ayyana 'yancin kai. A shekara ta 1918, Finns sun yi yaƙi da
ɗan gajeren yakin basasa wanda Bolshevik Red Guards ke dauke da makamai daga sojoji 7,000 zuwa 10,000 na Rasha da ke zaune a Finland.