as the war was badly prepared and without the expected initial success, anger rose against the king within the military ranks deployed to finland, where the memory of the harsh russian occupations of 1713–21 (the "greater wrath") (isoviha in finnish) and 1741–43 (the "lesser wrath") (pikkuviha in finnish) remained vivid. the war was clearly initiated by sweden, and in the view of a strong opinion, particularly among noble officers, a clear violation of the authoritarian instrument of government that the king, with support of the common estates of the parliament, had imposed in 1772.