Tuure Lehén [SEP] place of death
Tuure Lehén
Tuure Lehén (April 28, 1893 in Jämsänkoski – October 12, 1976 in Helsinki) was a prominent Finnish and later Finnish Soviet politician, initially, in 1913–18 as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, and since 1918 as a member of the Communist Party of Finland.
He served as Minister of Internal affairs in the People's Provisional Government unsuccessfully orchestrated by the Soviet Union for Finland in December 1939. He was also the first rector (1940–41) of Karelo-Finnish, now Petrozavodsk
Republic.
After the Continuation War (1941–44) Äikiä returned to Finland in 1947 with other emigrant Communists (Tuure Lehén, Inkeri Lehtinen etc.). The political climate in the country had swung to the left. The Finnish Communist Party (SKP), outlawed since 1918, was legalized. Äikiä became a columnist at the newspaper Työkansan sanomat and director of the press agency Demokraattinen lehtipalvelu (DLP), which was organizationally under the new left-wing electoral alliance, SKDL (The Finnish People's Democratic League).