Taisto Sinisalo
Taisto Jalo Sinisalo (born June 29, 1926 in Kotka , † March 26, 2002 ibid) was a Finnish politician of the Communist Party of Finland (SKP) and later the Communist Party of Finland (Unity) (SKPy).
Taisto Sinisalo was the illegitimate son of Jaada Sinisalo and Karl Lindstedt, both of whom were involved in the labor movement. He grew up in the Katariina district in the southern Finnish port city of Kotka .
Sinisalo's political career began as a local official of the Democratic Youth Association of Finland (SDNL). In 1950 Sinisalo was elected to the city council in his hometown of Kotka. After studying briefly in Moscow, Sinisalo returned to Finland in 1957. In the parliamentary elections in 1962 he was elected to the Finnish Reichstag for the Democratic Union of the Finnish People (SKDL), which also included the SKP, and held his mandate there until 1979. Within the SKP, he was the leader of the orthodox, pro-Soviet party wing. The members of this wing of the party were referred to as " Taistoans " or " Sinisaloists " after Taisto Sinsalo . As a minority, the party wing opposed the SKDL's participation in government in 1966, which, like the election of the Eurocommunist Aarne Saarinen as party chairman, led to a violent party dispute. Sinisalo finally became vice chairman of the SKP from 1970 to 1982 while Saarinen held the party chairmanship. After the split of the SKP in the mid-1980s, Sinisalo joined the newly founded SKPy, of which he was first chairman from 1986 to 1988. The influence of the SKPy in political Finland, however, remained small.
Sinisalo married Saara Annikki Turkia in 1948 and had three children with her: Vesa Sakari (* 1950), Tapio Kalervo (* 1953) and Pirkko Liisa (* 1954). He died after a long illness on March 26, 2002 at the age of 75 in his native town of Kotka.
Web links
- Taisto Sinisalo on eduskunta.fi
- Rüffel in the message article in Spiegel (17/1969) about the SKP
Individual evidence
- ↑ mtv3.fi: Taisto Sinisalo on kuollut Message on the death of Taisto Sinisalo, April 3, 2002.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sinisalo, Taisto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sinisalo, Taisto Jalo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish politician (SKP, SKPy), member of the Reichstag |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kotka |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 26, 2002 |
| Place of death | Kotka |