He has traveled to many countries and learned many languages. Besides Finnish, he can also speak Russian, French, German, English, Polish, Portuguese and a little Chinese. He is a linguistic genius (few soldiers are so good at it). Seeing the misfortune brought by most wars to mankind, he longed for peace. He eventually returned to Finland in 1917 and participated in the war of Finland's independence, followed by the civil war of Finland, which could not be separated from the war. He believed that children were the hope of the country's future. He founded the Mannham Child Welfare Union and later became President of the Finnish Red Cross. He died of illness in Switzerland in his later years.