Väinö Kallio (17 April 1897, Pihlajavesi – 9 February 1938) was a

Socialist Workers' Party of Finland Socialist Workers' Party of Finland ( fi, Suomen Sosialistinen Työväenpuolue, SSTP) was a Finnish political party in the early 1920s. The SSTP consisted of radical leftists who split from the Social Democratic Party of Finland after the Finnish ...

politician. He supported the Reds in the

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of 1918. He served in the

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from 1929 to 1930. In 1933, he was exiled by the

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to the

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. During the

Great Purge The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Nikolay Yezhov, Yezhov'), was General ...

, he was arrested and imprisoned on January 1, 1938 and later executed. After the death of

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secreta ...

, he was rehabilitated in 1958.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kallio, Vaino 1897 births 1938 deaths People from Keuruu People from Vaasa Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders politicians Communist Party of Finland politicians Members of the Parliament of Finland (1929–30) People of the Finnish Civil War (Red side) Great Purge victims from Finland People executed by the Soviet Union Soviet rehabilitations Executed communists