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Kuusinen, Otto Vilhelm

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Kuusinen, Otto Vilhelm (1881–1964)

Finnish-born Soviet politician. Founder of the Finnish Communist Party in 1918, he went to Russia in 1930, returning to his home country after it had been invaded by the USSR in 1939–40. He was installed by the Soviets as head of the territory seized from Finland (the ‘Finno-Karelian Republic’), 1940–56.

Kuusinen began his political career as a Social Democrat in Finland, but, inspired by Bolshevism in Russia, took an active role in the 1905 and 1917 revolutions there. After the Communist Party was outlawed in Finland, he settled in the USSR and became a leading figure in the Comintern. In 1957 he was appointed by Khrushchev to the Politburo.



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