Kustaa Rovio
Kustaa Adolf Simonpoika Rovio (23 January 1887 in Saint Petersburg – 21 April 1938) also known as Gustav Ravelin, was a Finnish Communist politician who fled to the Russian SFSR after the Finnish Civil War. Rovio was executed during the Great Purge.
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Kustaa Rovio.
Considerable material on the activity and eventual destruction of Rovio may be found in "The Bells of the Kremlin" University Press of New England. 1983. by Arvo Tuominen, a member of the Presidium of the Comintern, and a miraculous survivor of the purges, who escaped by becoming a representative of the Comintern in Sweden in 1938, then refused a summons to return to Moscow in 1939.
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