Otto Wilhelm (Wille) Kuusinen (pronunciation , Russian: ?´??? ??????´??????? ??´??????, Otto Vilgelmovich Kuusinen) (4 October 1881 – 17 May 1964) was a Finnish and, later, Soviet politician, literary historian, and poet who, after the defeat of the Reds in the Finnish Civil War, fled to the Soviet Union, where he worked until his death.