Aino Forsten

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Aino Forsten
Turku Province North
Personal details
Born(1885-04-02)2 April 1885
USSR
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Occupationpolitician, educator

Aina "Aino" Aleksandra Forsten, née Rainio (2 April 1885 – 27 November 1937), was a

educator. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland for the Social Democratic Party from 1916 to 1918.[1] After the 1918 Finnish Civil War, Forsten fled to the Soviet Union where she was executed during the Great Purge
in 1937.

Life

Early years

Forsten was born in a poor peasant family in the Southwest Finland municipality of Maaria. After primary school, she lived in Turku and joined the Social Democratic Party in 1904. Two years later Forsten moved to Pori, where her brother Jussi Rainio was a newspaperman for the local labour press. Forsten first worked as a saleswoman, but was soon hired as an agitator for the Social Democrats. She became one of the leading socialists in the Pori area, and was best known of her work for the labour women and their families. In 1909 Forsten married the mail carrier Kaarlo Verner Forsten (1885–1956), who was also a member of the Social Democratic Party.[2]

The Civil War and life in the Soviet Union

Forsten was elected to the Parliament of Finland in the

Soviet Russia.[3] In July 1918, they settled in Saint Petersburg, where Forsten worked as an accountant for the Communist Party of Finland. The party was established by the Red refugees in Moscow in August 1918.[4]

In 1920 Aino and Verner Forsten moved to

Soviet Karelia. Aino Forsten worked as an adult educator in Petrozavodsk and Kalevala and later as the head of the Petrozavodsk Finnish school for girls in 1930–1936. Verner Forsten was the Vice-Minister of Economy of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the chairman of the Kalevala County Council.[4]

Death

Aino and Verner Forsten were arrested during the

Stalin's death in 1955.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Aino Forsten" (in Finnish). Parliament of Finland. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Naisia Porissa: Kahden valtakunnan vihollinen" (in Finnish). Satakunta Museum. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
  3. ISBN 978-951-29622-8-0. Lintunen, Tiina (9 October 2015). "Link"
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  4. ^ a b c "KASNTn NKVDn vuosina 1937 - 1938 rankaisemien Suomen Eduskunnan entisten jäsenten luettelo" (in Finnish). The Official Web Portal of the Republic of Karelia. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
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