File talk:Finnish Civil War Memorial Antrea.jpg

This picture is not about civil war memorial. It's standing for memory of the War Times, as we call it in Finland, (meaning years 1939-1944). The "1918" above the text in that statue means the de-facto year of the state's independency. And the text there says (freely translated) something like "For the Fatherland and the Nation they gived their lives" and "Honour to the God who gave the victory and freedom". The goverements before the ending of the civil war were both weak and was struggling against each other so the state of Finland didn't exist before April 1918, when the remains of the opposite goverment (Reds) were wiped out by Germans. There's also an another fail; if that memorial statue is called "Civil war memorial", the picture's caption in the article Finnish Civil War is invalid: the winners of the civil war didn't NOT make any statues for the memory of the oppositing side - there was still a half or more of the folk in side of the Reds. As that statue is a memorial for the Wars, the caption there is of course right. Brb--81.175.209.78 (talk) 21:05, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the central discussion at Commons: commons:File_talk:Finnish_Civil_War_Memorial_Antrea.jpg. I have fixed the English Wikipedia caption along the line you suggested. I will try to add more photographs about this topic. – Kaihsu (talk) 09:23, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]