Word: hertta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only three Cabinet ministers are Communist Party members. Of these the dominant figure is Yrjö Leino, Minister of the Interior. His wife-pretty Hertta Kuusinen-is leader of the Democratic People's Union in the Diet, and daughter of the President of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic which incorporated southeastern Finland after...
Best known pro-Russian was aging (74), independent Premier Juho Paasikivi, who said in a pre-election speech: "Our policy must never again be directed against the Soviet Union." Moscow's most ardent advocate was thirtyish, fiery-eyed Hertta Kuusinen, daughter of oldtime Comintern functionary, now high Soviet official Otto Kuusinen (who stayed in Russia). Hertta Kuusinen's instrument was that familiar Communist device, a Democratic Front-composed in Finland of Communists, small farmers and a splinter of the old Social Democratic Party, once the country's biggest. Chief anti-Russian was tough...