Herman Hurmevaara

He was appointed to a position corresponding to the governor of Uusimaa county, in addition to serving in the financial affairs department of the people's delegation in the early days of February.

After the people's delegation withdrew to Vyborg at the beginning of April, Hurmevaara was elected to the committee sent to St. Petersburg, which took care of the evacuation of the Reds fleeing to Soviet Russia.

According to Arvo Tuominen, Hurmevaara, who acted as the committee's housekeeper, took with him funds from the Bank of Finland, which were used to finance the underground activities of Finnish communists.

When the Swedish Communist Party broke up, Hurmevaara supported the minority led by Hugo Sillén, loyal to the Comintern and to Joseph Stalin in his intra-party dispute with Nikolai Bukharin.

Hurmevaara attracted the attention of the authorities in the fall of 1929 in connection with the so-called "kapsäkki affair", when Kullervo Manner's suitcase containing his letters was also found in the possession of Comintern agent Leon Purman.

A petition drawn up on his behalf stated that Hurmevaara is a political refugee who faces a prison sentence of years in Finland, and that he should not be deported until the matter is thoroughly investigated.

Carl Lindhagen made an interlocutory question about the matter in the Riksdag, but the government carried out the deportation and Hurmevaara finally traveled with his family to the Soviet Union in April 1930.

After arriving in the Soviet Union, Hurmevaara worked in Moscow from 1930 to 1932 as an administrator of the International Red Aid, handling, among other things, the affairs of the Nordic countries.

Hurmevaara was expelled from the Communist Party of Norway in September 1937 for "social democratism" and "national fanaticism", and was imprisoned in December 1937 on charges of counter-revolutionary espionage.

Vappu Hurmevaara (1915-1993), who studied at the Lenin School, was spared Stalin's persecution after breing sent by Otto Wille Kuusinen to the SKP's Stockholm office in July 1937.