The pork mutiny (Finnish: Läskikapina Swedish: Fläskrevolten) was an incident in Northern Finland in 1922.
[1] The incident derives its name from the fact that the leader of the Red Guardists, Frans Myyryläinen, stood on a crate that had formerly contained pork when he delivered his speech called the 'Declaration of Battle of the Red Guerrilla Battalion of the North'.
[2] After the speech, 283 workers and members of their families joined the battalion and were armed and given money.
[1] On February 7, the battalion, by that time about 240 men, crossed the border back to the Soviet Union.
Information of the incident was received at Rovaniemi only on February 5, and the battalion managed to slip away before a group of the White Guard arrived.