Passage: On 8 April 1918, after the defeat in Tampere and the German army intervention, the People's Delegation retreated from Helsinki to Vyborg. The loss of Helsinki pushed them to Petrograd on 25 April. The escape of the leadership embittered many Reds, and thousands of them tried to flee to Russia, but most of the refugees were encircled by White and German troops. In the Lahti area they surrendered on 1-2 May. The long Red caravans included women and children, who experienced a desperate, chaotic escape with severe losses due to White attacks. The scene was described as a "road of tears" for the Reds, but for the Whites, the sight of long, enemy caravans heading east was a victorious moment. The Red Guards' last strongholds between the Kouvola and Kotka area fell by 5 May, after the Battle of Ahvenkoski. The war of 1918 ended on 15 May 1918, when the Whites took over Fort Ino, a Russian coastal artillery base on the Karelian Isthmus, from the Russian troops. White Finland and General Mannerheim celebrated the victory with a large military parade in Helsinki on 16 May 1918. The Red Guards had been defeated. The initially pacifist Finnish labour movement had lost the Civil War, several military leaders committed suicide and a majority of the Reds were sent to prison camps. The Vaasa Senate returned to Helsinki on 4 May 1918, but the capital was under the control of the German army. White Finland had become a protectorate of the German Empire and General Rüdiger von der Goltz was called "the true Regent of Finland". No armistice or peace negotiations were carried out between the Whites and Reds and an official peace treaty to end the Finnish Civil War was never signed.
How many days after the defeat in Tampere did the People's Delegation end up in Petrograd? How many days after the end of the war was there a large military celebration parade? How many days after the war of 1918 ended was the parade held in Helsinki? How many days before the end of the war did the Vaasa Senate return to Helsinki? How many days passes between leadership going to Petrograd and the surrender of Lahti? How many months passed between the People's Delegation retreat and the Vaasa Senate returning to Helsinki? What caused the end of the war on 15 May 1918? What happened first: the People's Delegation retreated or Vaasa Senate returned to Helsinki? What happened second: the People's Delegation retreated or Vaasa Senate returned to Helsinki? What was a victorious moment for the whites? When did the Reds surrender? When was the treaty to end the Finnish Civil War signed? Where did most people try to flee? Where did the Delegation retreat from? Which city was taken by the Whites first, Kouvola or Fort Ino? Who stopped the Reds from fleeing? Who surrendered on 1-2 May? how many months past after the defeat in April to when the Senate returned to Helsinki? what army was in control of the capital?