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Mar 18, 1882 Died on 12 Oct 1939 (aged 57)

Finnish politician and journalist

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  • Matti Aleksanteri Airola (18 March 1882, Ruokolahti - 12 October 1939, Leningrad; born Mats Alexander Bruus; name as a Soviet citizen ?????? ????????? ??????) was a Finnish journalist, attorney and politician.
  • He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1908 to 1918, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP). In 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, Airola served as a member of the Finnish People's Delegation, the government of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic.
  • When the Red side lost the war, Airola fled to Soviet Russia, where he worked as a teacher in Gatchina and in Leningrad.
  • He became a Soviet citizen in 1927.In 1938, during the Great Purge, Airola was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to five years in prison.
  • He died in detention on 12 October 1939.
  • He was posthumously rehabilitated by Soviet authorities in 1957.

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