Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Fitowar Yaƙin Duniya na Farko ya ba Finland damar samun 'yanci. 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, mutanen Finland sun yi yaƙin basasa na ɗan lokaci
a cikin abin da Bolshevik Red Guards aka dauke da makamai da 7,000 zuwa 10,000 Rasha sojojin sa a Finland.