Toivo Edvard Kujala (18 November 1894,

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– 7 April 1959) was a

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electrician and politician. In 1918 he was imprisoned for having sided with the Reds during the

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. In the 1920s he became an organiser for the then illegal

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), which led to a second prison sentence in 1931. He was imprisoned for a third time during

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and freed in 1944 after the Communist Party was legalised as a result of the

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of 19 September 1944. He was subsequently 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 until his death in 1959. Kujala was a member of the Central Committee of the SKP.

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1894 births 1959 deaths People from Kouvola People from Viipuri 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) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1951–54) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1954–58) Members of the Parliament of Finland (1958–62) People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side) Finnish people of World War II Prisoners and detainees of Finland {{Finland-politician-stub