Ville Pessi ( Fin. Ville Pessi ; March 24, 1902 , Kaukola , Kexholm County , Grand Duchy of Finland - November 6, 1983 , Vantaa , Finland ) - Finnish politician, leader of the Communist Party of Finland (1944-1969), honorary chairman of the PCF (from 1972 )
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In Berlin at the VI Congress of the SED , January 15, 1963 | ||
| Date of Birth | March 24, 1902 | |
| Place of Birth | village Kaukola , Kexholm County , Vyborg Province , Grand Duchy of Finland , Russian empire | |
| Date of death | November 6, 1983 (81 years old) | |
| Place of death | Vantaa , Uusimaa , Finland | |
| Citizenship |  Finland | |
| Occupation | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party | |
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| The consignment | Communist Party of Finland | |
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Biography
Born March 24, 1902 in the village of Kaukola, Kexholm county, Vyborg province , as part of the Grand Duchy of Finland, which was part of the Russian Empire ; now - the village of Sevastyanovo Priozersky district of the Leningrad region of Russia .
In 1922-1923 he served in the army.
Until 1924 he worked at logging and industrial enterprises in Southeast Finland. In 1923 he joined the Socialist Youth Union, and in 1924 - into the banned Communist Party of Finland .
In 1924-1927 he worked in the railway workshops of Pasil , where he first became the secretary of the party organization, and then a professional revolutionary.
From 1927 to 1930 he studied at the Communist University of National Minorities of the West named after Markhlevsky in Leningrad .
In 1930-1931, he was an underground organizer of the KPF district committees in the cities of Vaasa and Turku .
In 1931 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. In 1932-1933 he served as Secretary of the Central Committee for organizational work.
In 1933-1934 he studied at the International Leninist School in Moscow .
In 1934, after the arrest of Toivo Antikainen , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he headed the Communist Party of Finland.
In 1935 he was arrested for revolutionary activity and sentenced to seven years in prison, but at the end of his sentence he was transferred to a concentration camp, where he remained for two more years. After the Moscow armistice, the Communist Party of Finland was legalized, Ville Pessi was released and in 1944 he was elected to the Politburo of the Central Committee (of which he remained a member until 1972), from the same year - General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. He held the highest party post until 1969.
In 1945-1966 - Member of the Finnish Parliament from the Democratic Union of the People of Finland in the constituencies of Uusimaa and Helsinki [1] .
In April 1972 he was elected honorary chairman of the Communist Party. In the same year, for his services to the international communist movement, his great contribution to peace, the strengthening of friendship between the peoples of Finland and the Soviet Union, and in connection with his seventieth birthday, he was awarded the Order of the October Revolution in the USSR [2] . In 1982, for his great contribution to the development and strengthening of friendship between the peoples of Finland and the Soviet Union and in connection with his eightieth birthday, he was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples [3] .
Has been married since 1945 to Vera Sundvall.
He died on November 6, 1983, at the 82nd year of his life in Vantaa . He was buried in Helsinki at the Malmi cemetery.
In memory of the communist leader, one of the city streets in Leningrad in 1984-1990 was called Ville Pessi Street .
Rewards
- Order of the October Revolution (03/23/1972)
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (03.23.1982)
Notes
- ↑ Ville Pessi // Eduskunta Riksdagen (fin.)
- ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “On the Awarding of Comrade Ville Pessi with the Order of the October Revolution” of March 23, 1972 // Vedomosti of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . - March 29, 1982. - No. 13 (1619). - S. 172.
- ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR “On awarding the Honorary Chairman of the Communist Party of Finland, Comrade Ville Pessi Order of Friendship of Peoples ”of March 23, 1982 // Vedomosti of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR . - March 31, 1982. - No. 13 (2139). - S. 184.