Lauri Letonmäki
Finnish politician
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| Intro | Finnish politician | |
| Places | Finland | |
| was | Politician | |
| Work field | Politics | |
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| Birth | 22 December 1886 | |
| Death | 20 November 1935Petrozavodsk (aged 48 years) |
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Lauri Letonmäki (22 December 1886 in Tampere – 20 November 1935) was a Finnish journalist and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1914 to 1917. In 1918, during the Finnish Civil War, Letonmäki was Delegate for Justice in the Finnish People's Delegation, the government of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. After the Red side lost the war, Letonmäki fled to Soviet Russia, where he was among the founders of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP). He committed suicide in 1935.