--- title: 'Julistus (Proclamation): Red Guard committee denies rumours and orders rumour-spreaders arrested' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/punakaarti-julistus-huhut-1918/ description: A one-page Finnish proclamation from a Red Guard committee. It denies rumours that Germans are coming and that the leaders have 'sold the men', pledges… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Julistus (Proclamation): Red Guard committee denies rumours and orders rumour-spreaders arrested](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/punakaarti-julistus-huhut-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/punakaarti-julistus-huhut-1918.jpg) # Julistus (Proclamation): Red Guard committee denies rumours and orders rumour-spreaders arrested A one-page Finnish proclamation from a Red Guard committee. It denies rumours that Germans are coming and that the leaders have 'sold the men', pledges to stand 'man to man' against the enemy, demands unquestioning obedience to commanders, and orders that anyone spreading rumours or proclamations 'not in accordance with the workers' struggle' be arrested at once. - **Date:** 1918 - **Period:** [First World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwi) - **Made by:** Leading committee of a Red Guard (Punakaarti) unit in Helsinki, signed 'Jokinen' and 'H. Oiva' - **Region:** [Western and Central Europe](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=western-central-europe) - **Country:** [Finland](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=finland) - **Medium:** [Leaflet](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=leaflet) - **Issuer type:** [Military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=military) - **Regime:** [Finnish Peoples Delegation](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=finnish-peoples-delegation) - **Leader:** [Kullervo Manner](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=kullervo-manner) - **Audience:** [Own forces](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=own-forces) - **Purpose:** [Reassure](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=reassure) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information) - **Event:** [Finnish Civil War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=finnish-civil-war) - **Techniques:** [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [National Library of Finland (Kansalliskirjasto), Doria digital collections](https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fd2015-pp00006980), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (published in Finland in 1918, before 1931; National Library also marks it Public Domain Mark) Kansalliskirjasto (National Library of Finland), Doria, hdl 10024/129333, Public Domain. ## Text on the object Original (Finnish) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Julistus. Tämän viikon ajalla on levitetty provokatsioonisia juttuja saksalaisten Helsinkiin tulosta, mutta sellainen juttu on perätön. Viime yön aikana on levitetty myöskin lentolehtiä, joissa kehotetaan kaartia laskemaan aseensa ja antautumaan häpeällisesti. Valehtelemalla myöskin samassa julistuksessa sanotaan että johtajat ovat myyneet miehet. Toverit! Se ei ole totta. Kaikki paikallisen kaartin jäsenet ovat paikallaan. Kaartin johtajat eivät myy joukkojaan, olkaa varmoja. Me seisomme mies miehenä vihollista vastaan, emmekä laske aseita alas, levitettäköön mitä huhuja tahansa. Joka miehen on seistävä paikallaan ja toteltava ehdottomasti päällikköjen antamia määräyksiä. Henkilöt, jotka huhuja levittävät ja jakavat julistuksia, jotka eivät ole työväen taistelun mukaisia, täytyy heti vangita ja saattaa tuomittavaksi. Lähempiä tietoja annetaan lehdessä. Kaartin johtava komitea: JOKINEN. H. OIVA. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` Proclamation. During this week provocative stories have been spread about the arrival of the Germans in Helsinki, but such a story is groundless. During the past night leaflets have also been spread, urging the Guard to lay down its arms and to surrender shamefully. By lying, the same proclamation also says that the leaders have sold the men. Comrades! That is not true. All members of the local Guard are in their places. The leaders of the Guard do not sell their troops, be sure of that. We stand man to man against the enemy and do not lay down our arms, whatever rumours may be spread. Every man must stand at his post and obey unconditionally the orders given by the commanders. Persons who spread rumours and distribute proclamations that are not in accordance with the workers' struggle must be arrested at once and brought to trial. Further information will be given in the newspaper. The leading committee of the Guard: JOKINEN. H. OIVA. ``` Read from the scan and checked against the text layer embedded in the library's PDF; the handwritten '12/4' at the top left is not part of the printed text and is not transcribed above. Line-end hyphens in the original (for example 'provo-katsioonisia') are joined. [← Pershing's Crusaders](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pershings-crusaders-1918/) [? (The German Ogre), Norman Lindsay recruiting poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/question-mark-german-ogre-lindsay-1918/) ## Using the same techniques - [Our job is to beat the Hun. Vote Union Government (Canada, 1917 election)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/our-job-is-to-beat-the-hun-union-government-1917/) (1917 · Name-calling, Identity fusion) - [Salzburg 20-Kronen "Anschluss" voucher (1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/salzburg-anschluss-voucher-20-kronen-1921/) (1921 · Identity fusion) - [The Bombay Chronicle reports a foreign-cloth bonfire (1921)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/bombay-chronicle-cloth-bonfire-1921/) (Jul 30, 1921 · Identity fusion, Glittering generalities) - [Ein Volk, ein Führer, ein Ja (One People, One Leader, One Yes)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ein-volk-ein-fuehrer-ein-ja-1933/) (Nov 1933 · Identity fusion) - [Palazzo Braschi dressed for the 1934 plebiscite: rows of "SI" around the Duce](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/palazzo-braschi-si-1934/) (Mar 1934 · Identity fusion, Bandwagon) - [Oro alla Patria: handing in gold wedding rings in Milan, 1935](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/oro-alla-patria-milan-1935/) (Dec 1935 · Identity fusion, Transfer, Bandwagon) - ["Credere Obbedire Combattere": a school group photograph, Mirandola, 1938](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/credere-obbedire-combattere-mirandola-1938/) (1938 · Identity fusion, Glittering generalities) - [Eesti rahwas, hoia kokku! 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