Word: hertta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finnish Communists were busily echoing the Moscow propaganda. Busiest of all was Comrade Hertta Kuusinen, who last fall left her Communist husband, former Interior Minister Yrjö Leino, for his alleged Titoist leanings. Hertta is rapidly emerging as the leader of Finnish Communism. Washington guessed that Russia's propaganda offensive was designed chiefly to help Hertta and her comrades, tossed out of Finland's government last summer, to get back into power again...
...Moscow, back in 1924, lean, leggy Hertta Kuusinen was a nubile 20-year-old much exposed to the twin influences of love and the Soviet state. Her father, Finnish-born Otto Kuusinen (now Vice President of the U.S.S.R.'s Supreme Soviet), was an agile ideologist whose fancy footwork had kept him Secretary of the Comintern during the chairmanships of Zinoviev and Bukharin. Hertta's heart interest was stocky, heavy-jowled Tuure Lehen, an ardent young Communist who had won fame as the author of texts on mob fighting and strike tactics. In stolen moments together at Moscow...
...emerged in 1939 heart-whole and fancy free. In Moscow Tuure's political star had faded, but in Finland a scholarly young saboteur named Yrjö Leino soon caught Hertta's attention. In 1945, after years of close friendship, Hertta married Yrjö. "I wasn't able to before," she explained, "because of our being in jail." Leino went on to become Finland's Communist Minister of the Interior...
...soon took to making sheep's eyes at a banker's beautiful daughter, and various serving girls. When they heard about the banker's daughter, the local party chieftains growled "Bourgeois behavior." Hertta was more worried about the servant girls. According to Helsinki gossip, it irked Hertta that so many working-class women should learn about the poor quality of Leino's lovemaking; that kind of talk could be bad for the party. Leino began to go into an eclipse anyway; he lost his job as Interior Minister, while Hertta kept getting more important -next...
...Finland's Hertta Kuusinen, a smooth intellectual, now Minister Without Portfolio, and wife of Communist Yrjo Leino, whom she dominates. Hertta got her Communism from her father Otto Kuusinen, a party veteran...