Socialist parliamentary group (Finland)

The socialist parliamentary group was a parliamentary group in the Finnish Reichstag from August 1941 to spring 1942 of former members of the Social Democratic Party of Finland .

The parliamentary group consisted of the politicians Karl H. Wiik , Mikko Ampuja , Väinö Meltti , Yrjö Räisänen , Kaisu-Mirjami Rydberg and Cay Sundström . Johan Helo , who was a Socialist candidate in Finland's 1940 presidential election , is also considered an influential figure but was not a member of parliament. They criticized the course of the Finnish war governments and called for peace talks with the Soviet Union. The group disbanded as early as the spring of 1942 because the members were arrested. With the end of the Continuation War in 1944 and the defeat of Finland and the associated amnesty for formerly persecuted left-wing politicians, the six politicians were among the founders of the Democratic Union of the Finnish People , whose first chairman was Karl H. Wiik.