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About Olga Terho
- Olga Lydia Terho (née Virtanen) was a Finnish politician.
- She represented the Finnish People's Democratic League in parliament 1945-1948. Olga Virtanen was born July 23, 1910 in Siikainen, a rural village in south-western Finland.
- Her parents were Evert Virtanen and Hilma Kaisantytär, and she grew up in a tenant peasant family.
- She completed four years of elementary school.
- She began as a seamstress working at age of 15.
- In 1929 she moved to Lahti.
- In Lahti she became involved in left-wing politics, joining a leftist sports club and an association to support political prisoners.
- She befriended Väino Sievänen, who invited her to become a member of the District Committee of the underground Communist Party of Finland (SKP).Olga Virtanen was a political prisoner 1932-1933, 1936-1940 and 1941-1944.
- In 1932 she was arrested by the Detective Central Police.
- She spent months in jail before being given a suspended eight-month sentence in 1933.
- After leaving jail Virtanen migrated to Leningrad, Soviet Union.
- In Leningrad she attended a party school.The party school was closed down in June 1936.
- Virtanen returned to Finland in October 1936.
- She was pregnant at the time, the father of her child was killed in a purge.
- She was again arrested and sentenced to four years in jail for treason in January 1937.
- She and her baby were held at Hämeenlinna prison.
- In 1939 Sievänen helped arrange for her child to stay with a foster family in Lahti.
- Virtanen was released in the fall of 1940, but was restricted from leaving Helsinki and could rarely see her child.
- In Helsinki she became an activist in the Society for Peace and Friendship between Finland and the Soviet Union.
- In October 1941 she was again arrested and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for treason.Virtanen was released from jail after the 1944 armistice.
- Soon after returning to Helsinki the Communist Party sent her to work as organizer in south-western Finland.
- She married Martti Rafael Terho in 1945.
- Olga Terho was elected to parliament in the 1945 Finnish parliamentary election, standing as a SKDL candidate in the Turku North I constituency.Olga Terho was a member of the Pori municipal council.
- She died on November 22, 2003.
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