Walter Borg

In 1890, he received a final grade of Raahe Burgher and Trade School, a four-year mercantile institution with a good reputation.

The image of Walter Borg 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.

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.

From 22 April the character of the diary changed and was now written in the form of daily letters to his wife Ida.

The reason can be found in the first of two letters Karin Strindberg (also refugees in Petrograd) wrote to Ida Borg.

”It is my unspeakable heavy duty to tell You that our beloved friend and comrade Walter Borg died of pneumonia June 6.

On 26 May, he suddenly got an acute haemorrhage, which took much of his strength, the fever rose high and sustained, and on the 30th he was transferred to a very good private hospital where the care was the best.”Karin Strindberg sent his diary and other belongings to Ida Borg that same summer.