Armas Äikiä (1904–1965) was a

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and

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. He wrote the Anthem of Karelo-Finnish SSR. In Finland, when the Communist Party was banned, he spent the years 1927–1928 and 1930–1935 in prison, where he wrote defiant poems. Freed with a

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in 1935, he fled across the border to the

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, which led to the loss of his Finnish citizenship. During the

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, Äikiä served as Minister of Agriculture for the short-lived

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. He had several collection of poems published in the

. He returned to Finland in 1947, but having lost his citizenship could not participate in politics, working as a reporter instead. Äikiä's funeral took place in Malmi Cemitary in Helsinki in a tight police protection only present by leaders of the party

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and president

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. Äikiä's grave is a communal grave of

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members.

Bibliography of works

*''Vallankumousrunoja'', 1928 (anthology with other writers) *''Kaksi Soturia'', 1941 (published in Petroskoi, U.S.S.R.) *''Laulu Kotkasta'', 1941 (published in Petroskoi) *''Tulikehässä'', 1943 (published in Petroskoi) *''Iskelmiä'', 1943 (published in Petroskoi) *''Kalterilyyra'', 1945 (published in Petroskoi) *''Tulikantele'', 1947 (published in Petroskoi) *''Henkipatto'', 1948 (published in Finland by Kansankulttuuri) *''Kolmas Tie'', 1948 *''Vladimir Majakovski'', 1950 *''Lotta Hilpeläinen'', 1952 (as Viljo Veijo) *''Sinisten Silmien Tähden'', 1952 (as Viljo Veijo) *''Tänään ja Vuonna 1965'', 1959 *''Laulaja Tulvoren Juurella, 1962 *''Stihotvorenija'', 1963

References

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