Kustaa Rovio
Kustaa Adolf Simonpoika Rovio (23 January 1887 in Saint Petersburg – 21 April 1938) also known as Gustav Ravelin, was a Finland, Finnish Communist politician and was the First Secretary of the Karelian Communist Party. Rovio was executed during the Great Purge. He was also the head of the Helsinki Police Department, Helsingfors (Helsinki) Police. Biography Kustaa Rovio was born in a Russian-speaking Finnish family from the Saint Petersburg, Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) area. At the age of 12, he began working as a delivery boy in workshops, then as a turner at the Atlas plant, and began attending Marxist circles. In 1905, he took part in the procession to the Winter Palace. In December 1905, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, RSDLP. In 1907, he was arrested and exiled to Vologda, from where he fled. In 1910, he was arrested again and exiled to Tula, Russia, Tula. He then fled to Finland and became a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. From 1913 to ...
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