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...envoys were preparing for departure, orders came from Moscow to pack full evening dress and decorations. That created a crisis: only the Communist Minister of the Interior Yrjö Leino had thought of taking frakkipuku (tails) on a mission that would probably mean Finland's doom. When the delegates finally climbed into a chocolate-brown sleeper at Helsinki station, a small man in the crowd cried: "It's just like 1939!" Part of the crowd started to sing the Finnish national anthem; Communists countered with the Internationale. But the patriots had the last word. With conviction, they sang...
...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...
Little Slips. One of the few signs of Russian interference in Finland today is a mild press censorship administered by Leino, who informs newspapers ("by little slips of paper," as one editor put it) what subjects are taboo. The principal forbidden subject is criticism of Russia...
Even irreconcilable Finnish anti-Communists do not criticize Yrjö and Hertta Leino. Said one big businessman: "If all the Communists were like them, we wouldn't worry so much. The trouble is that when the right time comes they'll probably be replaced by the real radicals...