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...Presidium; of cancer; in Moscow. A native Finn, Kuusinen fled to Moscow in 1921 when a Russian-model Bolshevik revolution was crushed in his own country, became secretary of the Comintern, then returned home to rule over fellow Finns as puppet president of the 68,900-sq.-mi. Karelo-Finnish Republic, carved out of the eastern portion of Finland by Russia during World War II. His shrewd bet on Khrushchev in the post-Stalin power struggles won him a return ticket to Moscow in 1956, a seat at the very top a year later, and finally that ultimate accolade...
...Aviv, whom the Russians arrested in 1940 for "breaking passport regulations" while visiting his native Poland presented the most comprehensive account of conditions in Soviet slave labor camps. He spent five years, successively, at the 48th Square, 2nd Onega division of BBK (Belomor Baltic Canal) Camp in the Karelo-Finnish Republic; the Kruglitsa camp site at Kargopol in the Archangel district; the transit camp site in Kotlas. Reported Margolin: "The entire BBK Camp which spreads from . . . Lake Oneg to the White Sea, embraced in my time several hundred camp sites . . . [All told], Camp BBK held about...
...Parliament, right and center parties raised the same question that had precipitated the Czech Communist coup, asked the government if it was true that Finland's Communist-bossed police had recently been loaded with Communists; 2) a Communist rally was told by Hertta Kuusinen, fortyish daughter of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic's President Otto Kuusinen, that "Finland must follow the same road as Czechoslovakia...
...delegation was Communist Minister of Interior Yrjö Leino. His wife, lively 44-year-old Hertta Kuusinen (sometimes called Finland's Ana Pauker), is the daughter of Russian stooge Otto Kuusinen, President of the Karelo-Finnish Republic which Russia grabbed from Finland in World...
Minister of the Interior Vrjö Leino, boss of the "Valpo" or political police, countered with orders for tighter border control. But Finland's border remained wide open to an influx of Finnish Communist agents from Otto Kuusinen's nearby Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic. Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time...