lying in bed at 40 degrees fever and dictating his articles for his wife has gone to posterity. With the strike in November 1917 culminated the events in Finland that had been triggered by the March Revolution in Russia the same year. Walter Borg had already in 1916 for health reasons, resigned as the newspaper's editor. But he still wrote, and when he did, especially in 1917, it was obvious that he was of a revolutionary spark. He had taken sides. The two brothers in law Walter Borg and Janne Ojala had always been a little further out on the left wing than most of the paper's other employees, and that they chose the storm when it arrived, doesn't really surprise. When the war broke out Walter Borg was, as often before, at Nummela sanatorium, but this time he did not stay for long. The red commander in Turku offered him the post as head of the Turku office of the Bank of Finland - and he accepted. In early April 1918 the Germans landed in Hanko and Loviisa and began their advance towards Helsinki. When Tampere also shortly afterwards fell, the war was lost for the reds and the retreat eastward began. Refugees fled by train from Turku. On the night of 8 April the first train with refugees left Turku and on it was Walter Borg. Like many other refugees Walter Borg eventually ended up in Petrograd (now St Petersburg). It was here he wrote his diary. From 22 April the character of the diary changed and was now written in the form of daily letters to his wife Ida. The diary ends abruptly. The reason can be found in the first of two letters Karin Strindberg (also refugees in Petrograd) wrote to Ida Borg. Karin Strindberg sent his diary and other belongings to Ida Borg that same summer. This is a translation of the same article in Swedish Wikipedia. References Sources Anna Bondestam: Walter Borg (1870-1918), grosshandlare och revolutionär, i avsnittet Eldsjälar i Arbetet, En tidning i Åbo på 1910-talet och människorna kring den, Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland, 1968, pages 161–180. 1870 births 1918 deaths People from Jakobstad People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Swedish-speaking Finns Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians Finnish political activists Finnish merchants Idealists People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side) 19th-century Finnish businesspeople Finnish refugees