Otto Wille Kuusinen

Otto Wille Kuusinen

Otto Wilhelm (Wille) Kuusinen ( pronunciation, Russian: О́тто Вильге́льмович Ку́усинен) (4 October 1881, Laukaa, Finland – 17 May 1964, Moscow, USSR) was a Finnish-born Soviet politician, literary historian, and poet, who, after the defeat of the Reds in the Finnish Civil War, fled to the Soviet Union, where he worked until his death.

Read more about Otto Wille Kuusinen:  Early Life, Civil War and Flight To The Soviet Union, Head of The Terijoki Government, Member of The Politburo, Family

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