Name Tuure Lehen Role Politician | Education University of Helsinki | |
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Died October 12, 1976, Helsinki, Finland | ||
Tuure Lehén (April 28, 1893, Jämsänkoski - October 12, 1976, 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 State University.
He first came to prominence by writing texts on mob fighting and strike tactics, and in 1926 married Hertta Kuusinen. After World War II he became a general in the Red Army. Lehén also fought in the Spanish Civil War.
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