Jussi Vatanen (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Finnish politician
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Place of Birth: Eno, Eastern Finland Province, Finland
About Jussi Vatanen (politician)
- Johan (Jussi) Vatanen (15 January 1875, Eno – 1936, Kaluga) was a Finnish labourer and politician.
- He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1916 to 1918, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP).
- During the Finnish Civil War he sided with the Reds and when the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic collapsed, he fled to Soviet Russia.
- On 29 August 1918, he took part in the founding congress of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) in Moscow.
- He worked as a party functionary, as a propagandist and as a teacher until 1935, when he retired.
- He died in 1936 in Kaluga.
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