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Ahti Kalle Samuli Karjalainen was a Finnish economist and politician. He was a member of the Agrarian League and served two terms as Prime Minister of Finland. He is, however, better known for his period as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland. Karjalainen is considered one of the most influential figures in post-war Finnish politics. Like President Urho Kekkonen, Karjalainen attached great importance to Finland's relationship with the Soviet Union, and was at one point considered to be Kekkonen's likely successor until alcoholism affected his later career.
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Yrjö Oskar Ruutu was a Finnish social scientist and politician. Ruutu was the first principal of the School of Social Sciences 1925–1932, 1935–1945 and 1949–1953, and the first Finnish professor of International relations 1949–1954. Ruutu was the first in Finland to defend his doctoral thesis on social sciences and wrote the first Finnish presentation on international relations as a science. He was also the head of the National Board of Education 1945–1950.
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Ensio Ilmari Uoti was a Finnish politician and Nazi who in the 1930s was the leader of the Finnish-Socialist Workers' Party (SSTP).
Johannes (Hannes) Tiainen was a Finnish agronomist, civil servant and politician, born in Sortavala. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) After the SDP split in 1959, Tiainen joined the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders (TPSL). He served as Deputy Minister of Agriculture from 3 December 1952 to 9 July 1953 and from 5 May to 20 October 1954, as Deputy Minister of Transport and Public Works from 20 October 1954 to 27 May 1957 and as Deputy Minister of Social Affairs from 22 October 1954 to 27 May 1957.
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