Pork mutiny: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|1922 military incursion by Soviet soldiers into Finnish territory}}

{{No footnotes|date=January 2023}}

The '''pork mutiny''' ({{lang-fi|Läskikapina}} {{lang-sv|Fläskrevolten}}) was an incident in Northern [[Finland]] in 1922. On February 2 a group of roughly armed [[Red Guards (Finland)|Red Guard]] members crossed the [[Finland–Russia border|Finnish-Soviet border]] near [[Salla|Kuolajärvi]] and [[Savukoski]] after disarming a company of the [[Finnish Border Guard|Finnish border guards]]. They advanced to a logging yard owned by [[Kemijoki Oy]]. They arrested the heads of the yard and confiscated the cashbox.<ref name="salomaa"/>