Vappu on Valpurin päivä, ei työläisten juhla, historiaa on vääristetty.

Walpurgis Night an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht, also known as Saint Walpurga’s Eve, is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of 30 April and the day of 1 May.

This feast commemorates the canonization of Saint Walpurga and the movement of her relics to Eichstätt, both of which occurred on 1 May 870, hence the name.

From the 12th century until the end of the 13th century, when the Swedish crown and the Catholic Church expanded and strengthened their control over a large part of present-day Finland, Christianity was planted in people’s minds by the sword.

Seeing from this point of view, celebrating Saint Walpurgis as a jubilee for workers and the poor is an obviously unsuccessful choice on the part of the labor movement.

Traditionally, the first of May has not been a general drinking day for the labor movement, but a march for its own cause. Instead, suffering from a hangover and curing it has been part of the tradition also within the movement.

One of the reasons for the failure of the labor movement in 1918 can be attributed to the fact that too many of them depended too much on Christianity.

When the whites butchered, they did not care much about the message of the faith, but considered it a duty given by God which the priests blessed.

For success, the Reds should have first shot all the priests, captured the port of Vaasa and other ports, then sunk the ships arriving from Germany loaded with professional killers (jaegers) and the cargo of weapons.

‎ ‎ Glada Vappen 😉