Asser Salo

Edvard Asser Salo (22 February 1902, Laukaa - 11 February 1938) was a Finnish lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland from 1929 to 1930, representing the Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders (STPV). On 4 June 1930, he was abducted in Vaasa by activists of the anti-communist Lapua Movement, who forced him under threat for his life to make a public promise to never again engage in communist activities on the territory of Vaasa Province. Soon thereafter he went into exile, first to Sweden, then to the Soviet Union, where he worked at first as a lecturer at the International Lenin School in Moscow. He worked in administrative functions in Leningrad from 1935 to 1936 and in the Karelian ASSR from 1936 until 18 August 1937, when he was dismissed. As one of the victims of the Great Purge, he was arrested by the NKVD, sentenced to death and shot on 11 February 1938.[1]

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  1. ↑ "Eduskunta - kansanedustajat". Eduskunta.fi. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
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