Lauri Aukusti Letonmäki (22 December 1886, in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclo ...

– 20 November 1935) was a Finnish journalist, teacher, and politician. He was a member of the

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from 1914 to 1916. In 1918, during the

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, Letonmäki was

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in the

Finnish People's Delegation The Finnish People's Delegation ( fi, Suomen kansanvaltuuskunta sv, Finska folkdelegationen) was a governmental body, created by a group of members in the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP), to serve as the government of the Finnish Socia ...

, the government of the

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. After the Red side lost the war, Letonmäki fled to

Soviet Russia The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...

, where he was among the founders of 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). He committed suicide in 1935.

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1886 births 1935 suicides Politicians from Tampere People from Häme Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians Communist Party of Finland politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1913–16) Finnish People's Delegation members Finnish emigrants to the Soviet Union Finnish politicians who committed suicide Suicides in the Soviet Union 1935 deaths {{Finland-bio-stub