Eino Rahja

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Eino Rahja
Eino Rahja

Eino Rahja (1885 - 1936) was a Finnish-Russian politician who joined the Bolshevik Party in 1903. Rahja organized Lenin's temporary escape to Finland in the summer of 1917. During the Finnish Civil War, Rahja was one of the most capable military leaders of the Reds. After the Reds lost the war he fled to the Russian SFSR where he lived for the rest of his life and became, for example, a commander of the army corps (komkor) in the Red army.[1]

Eino Rahja was expelled from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland in 1927.[1]

Eino was brother with Jukka Rahja and Jaakko Rahja.

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  1. ^ a b Jukka Paastela: Finnish Communism under Soviet Totalitarianism (Kikimora 2003).
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