"The Red Guards' March" (

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: "") is a

working class song. It is one of the best known songs of the " Reds" during the

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in 1918, but was actually sung already before the war. Even though the lyrics for the march were written in Finnish, the melody has been taken from two Swedish and German folk songs. The writer of the lyrics is unknown.

References

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