Arvo Tuominen

Arvo "Poika" Tuominen (5 September 1894 – 27 May 1981) was a Finnish communist revolutionary and later a social democratic journalist, politician and author.

He returned to Finland, where he was arrested on 26 January 1922, and subsequently imprisoned for publishing a proclamation urging Finnish workers to fight on the Soviet side during the Soviet-Finnish conflict over Karelia.

He was given a crash course at the International Lenin School and was appointed General Secretary of the Finnish Communist Party, also becoming a member of the Comintern Executive Committee Presidium.

Tuominen later claimed that he was being recalled to become the head of the communist government of the Finnish Democratic Republic, which Stalin planned to install in Finland.

It was only after the end of the Winter War that Tuominen took the step of severing his ties with the Soviet Union and started writing anticommunist pamphlets, which were given widespread publicity in Finland.

Tuominen joined the Social Democratic Party, edited its newspaper Kansan Lehti in Tampere for five years and became a member of parliament for one term (1958–1962).