Voitto Eloranta - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Jul 06, 1876 Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1875)

Finnish politician

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About Voitto Eloranta

  • Johan Viktor (Voitto) Eloranta (6 July 1876 - 1923; original surname Lindroos) was a Finnish schoolteacher, journalist and politician, born in Janakkala.
  • He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1907 to 1908 and again from 1909 to 1911, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP).
  • In 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, he was a member of the Staff of the Central Front of the Red side.
  • After the collapse of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, Eloranta fled to Soviet Russia, where he was among the founders of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP).
  • He eventually joined the internal opposition of the SKP and in 1922, after the Kuusinen Club Incident, where eight Finnish communists were shot by members of the party opposition, he was sentenced to death by a Soviet tribunal, accused of being the main instigator of the incident.
  • He was shot in 1923.Eloranta was married with the playwright Elvira Willman who was also executed in Russia.

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