Or a length of stout rope.
During the four-month long Finnish Civil War of 1918, captured prisoners were frequently used for bayonet practice to give the newer recruits their first bloody introduction to the realities of their new trade. Only about one death in four could be reasonably desciribed as a *combet casualty*; the rest were executed prisoners, plus some who died of wounds, under interrogation, or in the subzero temperatures of unplanned-for prisoner-of-war facilities.
Even now, more than a hundred years later, the Finns can't decide what to call the war. The leftists and Socialists prefer the term *Civil War*, those on the winning side usually go for the more descriptive *War against Traitors* or *War for Finland.*
