Walter Borg
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Walter Borg was a Swedish-speaking Finnish Communist. As a sailor, Borg helped the Bolshevik
s smuggle things to and from Tsarist Russia. Borg fought in the Finnish Civil War
and after the Reds lost, he fled to Petrograd where he died.
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....
s smuggle things to and from Tsarist Russia. Borg fought in the Finnish Civil War
Finnish Civil War
The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I in Europe. The Civil War concerned control and leadership of The Grand Duchy of Finland as it achieved independence from Russia after the October Revolution in Petrograd...
and after the Reds lost, he fled to Petrograd where he died.