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...Russians specifically demanded the surrender of 65 of the fugitives for "treason." The hard-pressed Finns made some arrests, but it was clear that they would not find most of the fugitives. Gromyko knew this well: Russia had asked for the return of the "traitors" before, when Communist Yrjõ Leino was still Interior Minister. Not even Leino had been able to find them...
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...
...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...
...Yrjö 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...
...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...