Ville Pessi

Pessi on the VI. SED party congress in Berlin in 1963 .

Ville Pessi (born March 24, 1902 in Kaukola , South Karelia , today Sevastjanowo; † November 6, 1983 in Vantaa ) was a Finnish politician and from 1944 to 1969 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Finland ( Suomen Communistines Puolue, SKP ).

Pessi was the illegitimate son of the worker Marja Sipintytär Pessi. After attending school he initially worked as a lumberjack, in 1924 he became a member of the SKP and then worked in the Communist Youth Association, among others. In 1931 Pessi was elected to the Central Committee of the SKP, two years later he attended the Lenin School in Moscow. Because of his political revolutionary activities in Finland, he was imprisoned in 1935. He was only released again in 1944, when Finland was defeated by the Soviet Union in the Continuation War . Pessi has now been elected General Secretary of the now legalized SKP. From April 1945 he also sat in the Finnish Parliament for the left-wing electoral organization of the Democratic Union of the Finnish People established by the SKP . He held the mandate there until 1966. Pessi remained the SKP General Secretary until 1969. He followed a strict Moscow-oriented course. He was also the chairman of the Otto Wille Kuusinen Foundation.

In 1945 he married Vera Sundvall. He was buried in the cemetery in the Malmi district of Helsinki .

Web links

• Ville Pessi - Finnish MP (Finnish)
• Ville Pessi in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)