The pork mutiny ( fi, Läskikapina sv, Fläskrevolten) was an incident in Northern
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
in 1922. On February 2 a group of roughly armed
Red Guard
Red Guards () were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.Teiwes According to a Red Guard le ...
members crossed the
Finnish-Soviet border near
Kuolajärvi and
Savukoski
Savukoski ( sme, Suovvaguoika, smn, Suovâkuoškâ, sms, Suõvvkuõškk) is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Lapland, Finland. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The p ...
after disarming a company of the
Finnish border guards. They advanced to a logging yard owned by
Kemijoki Oy. They arrested the heads of the yard and confiscated the cashbox.
The incident derives its name from the fact that the leader of the Red Guardists,
Frans Myyryläinen, stood on a crate that had formerly contained pork when he delivered his speech called the 'Declaration of Battle of the Red
Guerrilla Battalion of the North'.
After the speech, 283 workers and members of their families joined the battalion and were armed and given money.
[Niinistö 2005, p. 232.][Salomaa 2018.] The Battalion then made its way back to the border. On its way, it robbed a group of border guards and other workplaces.
On February 7, the battalion, by that time about 240 men, crossed the border back to the Soviet Union. Information of the incident was received at
Rovaniemi
Rovaniemi ( , ; sme, Roavvenjárga ; smn, Ruávinjargâ; sms, Ruäʹvnjargg) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is the administrative capital and commercial centre of Finland's northernmost province, Lapland, and its southern part Perà ...
only on February 5, and the battalion managed to slip away before a group of the
White Guard arrived.
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Aunus expedition
The Aunus expedition was an attempt by Finnish volunteers to occupy parts of East Karelia in 1919, during the Russian Civil War. ''Aunus'' is the Finnish name for Olonets Karelia. This expedition was one of many Finnic "kinship wars" (''heimos ...
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Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebellion and Revolution, . According to 1,005 interviews done by the newspaper ''Aamulehti'', the most popular names were as follows: Civil W ...
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Heimosodat
The Finland, Finnish Heimosodat (singular ''heimosota''), refer to a series of armed conflicts and Filibuster (military), private military expeditions in 1918–1922 into the areas of the former Russian Empire which were neighbouring Finland an ...
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