[5] From 1922 to 1923, Askeli worked in Petrozavodsk, Karelia[6] and from 1927 to 1929 he headed the education department of the Co-operative Trading Association in Brooklyn.
[1] In the 1920s, Askeli belonged to the Communist Party of the United States, from which he was expelled along with its opposition in 1928.
He was later a member of the social democratic Finnish American League for Democracy.
[4] After his political career, Askeli worked as a physiotherapist in Boston, Rhode Island, and Hyannis, and he owned a clinic in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
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