Communist Party of Finland

After the Continuation War, the SKP dominated the Finnish People's Democratic League, which was founded in 1944 as an umbrella organization of the radical left.[3] Internally, SKP was divided, with a Eurocommunist mainstream and a hardline pro-Moscow minority, called the Taistoists after their leader, Taisto Sinisalo.The word "taisto" also means "battle" or "fight"; the double connotation made this slur, originally launched by the largest Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, stick.Soviet threats to withdraw support were the main reason why the majority did not expel the Taistoists from the party leadership or membership.While a de facto Eurocommunist majority held sway, the Taistoist minority decisively stood by the Soviet Union and the Brezhnev doctrine.
Central Committee of the exile Communist Party of Finland (SKP) in Moscow , 1920. From left to right: K. M. Evä , Jukka Rahja , Jalo Kohonen , Kullervo Manner , Eino Rahja , Mandi Sirola and Yrjö Sirola .
Labour Day march of the Communist Party of Finland on Kaivokatu in Helsinki on May 1, 1960
Leaders of the Communist Party of Finland: Ensio Laine (left), Markus Kainulainen, Taisto Sinisalo, Aarne Saarinen, Arvo Aalto, and Erkki Kivimäki in 1970
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