Birthday of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim & Flag Day celebration of the Finnish Defence Forces
Birthday of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim & Flag Day celebration of the Finnish Defence Forces is held on June 4. Finland. This event in the first decade of the month June is annual. 
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A conservative aristocrat and monarchist, Mannerheim assumed command of the “White” (anti-Bolshevik) forces in January 1918 during the Finnish Civil War and, with German assistance, defeated the Finnish Bolsheviks and expelled Russian forces in a bloody four-month campaign.
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