Ville Pessi
Ville Pessi (24 March 1902,
Leningrad from 1927 to 1930 and at the International Lenin School in Moscow from 1933 to 1934).[1] Soon after he came back to Finland he was arrested and spent the years from 1935 to 1944 in prison.[1] He was freed as a consequence of the Moscow Armistice of 19 September 1944, when the SKP was legalised.[1] He was elected as the general secretary of the SKP in 1944 and served in the post until 1969 when he was replaced by Arvo Aalto.[3] He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1945 to 1966, representing the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL).[1]
Pessi represented SKP at a number of key international gatherings of the world communist movement; at the
International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties and the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.[4]
Pessi resigned from the post and was not re-elected as SKP general secretary at the 15th party congress in 1969.[5] However, he remained on the party politburo.[4] In later years he held the post of honorary chairman of the party, and served as vice chairman of the Finnish Committee for European Security.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Eduskunta - kansanedustajat". Eduskunta.fi. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-87436-169-8.
- ^ JSTOR 2493091.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8179-8403-8.
- JSTOR 40394276.
- ^ New Times. Newspaper "Trud,". October 1981. p. 42.
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