Eino Rahja
Eino Rahja | |
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Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | |
Allegiance | Red Finland Soviet Union |
Years of service | 1917–1931 |
Rank | Commander |
Battles/wars | Finnish Civil War (Battle of Tampere) |
Awards | Order of the Red Banner |
Eino Abramovich Rahja (20 June 1885 – 26 April 1936) was a Finnish-Russian revolutionary who joined the
Russian SFSR where he lived for the rest of his life and became, for example, a commander of the army corps (komkor) in the Red Army.[1]
Eino Rahja was expelled from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland in 1927. In the early 1920s he was politically close to Grigory Zinoviev.[1]
Eino was a brother of Jukka Rahja and Jaakko Rahja. His brother, Jaakko, was wounded during the Kuusinen Club Incident on 31 August 1920.
Rahja was expelled from the army in 1935 for his alcoholism and later sentenced to death in 1936,[citation needed] however, he died in April 1936 from tuberculosis and alcohol abuse, before he could be executed.[2]