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About Elsa Karppinen
- Elsa Dagmar Karppinen (née Korhonen; 21 May 1901 - 30 April 1957) was a Finnish journalist and politician, born in Kemi.
- As an active communist at a time when the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) was still illegal, she was imprisoned three times for a total of 12 years before the SKP was legalised as a result of the Moscow Armistice of 19 September 1944.
- She was subsequently elected to the Parliament of Finland, where she represented the Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL) from 1945 to 1948.
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