Eino Nikolai Kujanpää (16 January 1904 - 11 June 1980; original surname ''Syrjänen'') was a

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construction worker and politician. He was born in Tammela. He became a communist as a young man and in the late 1920s he went to the

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, where he studied at the

International Lenin School The International Lenin School (ILS) was an official training school operated in Moscow, Soviet Union, by the Communist International from May 1926 to 1938. It was resumed after the Second World War and run by the Communist Party of the Soviet Unio ...

and at the

Communist University of the National Minorities of the West The Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMZ - ''Kommunistichesky Universitet Natsionalnykh Menshinstv Zapada''; КУНМЗ - Коммунистический университет национальных меньшин ...

. He returned to Finland in 1936, was soon arrested and spent the years 1937 to 1940 and 1941 to 1944 in prison for political reasons. He was freed in 1944, when the

Communist Party of Finland The Communist Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, SKP; sv, Finlands Kommunistiska Parti) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944. The SKP was banned by ...

(SKP) was legalised as a result of the

Moscow Armistice The Moscow Armistice was signed between Finland on one side and the Soviet Union and United Kingdom on the other side on 19 September 1944, ending the Continuation War. The Armistice restored the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940, with a number of modi ...

of 19 September 1944. He was then elected to the

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, where he represented the

Finnish People's Democratic League Finnish People's Democratic League ( fi, Suomen Kansan Demokraattinen Liitto, SKDL; sv, Demokratiska Förbundet för Finlands Folk, DFFF) was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic Pa ...

(SKDL) from 1945 to 1951.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kujanpaa, Eino 1904 births 1980 deaths People from Tammela, Finland People from Häme Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Communist Party of Finland politicians Finnish People's Democratic League politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1945–48) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1948–51) Finnish people of World War II Prisoners and detainees of Finland