Toivo Hjalmar Långström (1889-1983) was a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 politician and trade union activist. He was the last leader of Socialist Workers' Party of Finland

Socialist Workers' Party of Finland

Socialist Workers' Party of Finland 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 Civil War of 1918. The banned Communist Party of Finland was the main force behind the party but...

 from May to August 1923 before the party was banned and its leadership imprisoned. In jail for political reasons between 1930 and 1934 and during Finland's 1941-1944 Continuation War

Continuation War

The Continuation War was the second of two wars fought between Finland and the Soviet Union during World War II.At the time of the war, the Finnish side used the name to make clear its perceived relationship to the preceding Winter War...

 against the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, Långström was also active in the Communist Party of Finland

Communist Party of Finland

The Communist Party of Finland was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.SKP did not participate in any elections with its own name. Instead, front organisations were used...

 and (later) the Finnish People's Democratic League

Finnish People's Democratic League

Finnish People's Democratic League was a Finnish political organisation with the aim of uniting those left of the Finnish Social Democratic Party...

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Långström was elected to the Parliament of Finland

Parliament of Finland

The Eduskunta , is the parliament of Finland. The unicameral parliament has 200 members and meets in the Parliament House in Helsinki. The latest election to the parliament took place on April 17, 2011.- Constitution :...

 in the 1922 election

Finnish parliamentary election, 1922

Parliamentary elections were held in Finland between 1 and 3 July 1922. The Social Democratic Pary remained the largest in Parliament with 53 of the 200 seats...

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