Kalevi Sorsa - Kalevi Sorsa Taisto Kalevi Sorsa (December 21, 1930 - January 16, 2004) was a Finnish politician who was Prime Minister of Finland four times: 1972-1975, 1977-1979, 1982-1983 and 1983-1987. He was also longtime leader of the Social Democratic Party of Finland. Before a meteoric rise to the top of Finnish politics Kalevi Sorsa worked as publishing editor, with his greatest "claim to fame" being to turn down the first novel of Kalle Päätalo, which turned out to be one of the greatest Finnish bestsellers of all time. Sorsa was brought in from this relative obscurity by Rafael Paasio to assume the influential post of party secretary without much previous experience of politics. One of the most strongwilled but also thinskinned public figures, Sorsa had numerous bitter.
Social Democratic Party of Finland - 1937. During World War II, however, the party played a central role in the government, symolizing the national unity in response to USSR's threat and the Winter War in 1939-40. During the first months of the Continuation War (1941-1944) the country, the parliament and the coalition Cabinet was divided on the question whether Finland's army should stop at the old border and thereby demonstratively refrain from any attempts of conquests. The country's dangerous position called however on national unity, and the party's leadership chose to refrain from any visible protests. This decision is often indicated as one of the main reasons behind the increased and cemented weakness of the Social Democrats, and the high percentage of Communist voters in the first elections after the Continuation War. The other main reason being.
Mauno Koivisto - about the social relations in the Turku dockyards. In 1957, he became a banker, which eventually lead to a position as chairman of the board of the Bank of Finland. Meanwhile, he had to witness intra-party schisms in the Social Democratic party. He tried to improve the party's connections to communists and to president Urho Kekkonen. In 1968 he became Prime Minister of Finland. In the 1970s, Kekkonen seemed to regard Koivisto as his potential rival and supported Kalevi Sorsa. Koivisto remained as the chairman of the Bank of Finland. In 1979, he was re-elected as prime minister and refused Kekkonen's demand that he resign. When Kekkonen resigned for health reasons, Koivisto became an acting president preceding elections. During the campaign, Koivisto distanced himself from those with Moscow's backing. Polling percentage.
List of socialists - Estenssoro, Shimon Peres, Göran Persson, Sandro Pertini, Symon Petlyura, Pedro Pires Q. Jânio Quadros R. Yitzhak Rabin, Bob Rae, Navin Ramgoolam, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Ernesto Ramos Antonini, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Johannes Rau, John Reid, Karl Renner, Michel Rocard, Walter Rodney, Roy Romanow, Kevin Rudd, Arnold Rüütel S. Jorge Sampaio, Bernie Sanders, Alfred Sant, Giuseppe Saragat, Michael Joseph Savage, Philipp Scheidemann, Willem Schermerhorn, Helmut Schmidt, Gerhard Schröder, Kurt Schumacher, James Scullin, Jim Sillars, Costas Simitis, John Smith, Phillip Snowden, Mário Soares, Kalevi Sorsa, Paul-Henri Spaak, Benjamin Spock, Thorvald Stauning, Jens Stoltenberg, Aung San Suu Kyi T. Väinö Tanner, Norman Thomas, Frank Tudor, Erkki Tuomioja U. Cassam Uteem V. Achille Van Acker, Ronald Venetiaan, Mário Viegas Carrascalão W. John Christian Watson, William Wedgwood Benn, John Wheatley, Gough Whitlam, Shirley Williams, Harold Wilson, James Woodsworth.
Eurovision Song Contest 1981 - 20 Belgium Emly Starr Samson 13 40 Cyprus Island Monika 6 69 Denmark Debbie Cameron and Tommy Seebach Kroeller Eller Ej 11 41 Finland Riki Sorsa Reggae OK 16 27 France Jean Gabilou Humanahum 3 125 Germany Lena Valaitis Johnny Blue 2 132 Greece Yiannis Dimitras Feggari Kalokerino 8 55 Ireland Sheeba Horoscopes 5 105 Israel Habibi Halayla 7 56 Luxembourg Jean-Claude Pascal C'est Peut-Etre Pas L'Amerique 11 41 Netherlands Linda Williams Het Is Een Wonder 9 51 Norway Finn Kalvik Aldri I Livet 20 0 Portugal Carlos Paico Playback 18 9 Spain Bacchelli Y Solo Tu 14 38 Sweden Bjoern Skifs Faangad I En Droem 10 50 Switzerland Peter, Sue and Marc Io Senza Te 4 121 Turkey Modern Folk Trio and Ayseg Donme Dolap 18 9 United Kingdom Bucks.
Martti Ahtisaari - and president of Finland 1994-2000 Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari was born in Viipuri 1937. His father was of Norwegian descent. During the Continuation War his family moved to Kuopio, where he spent most of his childhood until they moved to Oulu 1952. In Oulu he joined to local YMCA. 1959 he graduated as a teacher through a distance-learning course. 1960 he left to Karachi, India, to lead YMCA's physical education training establishment, where he was accustomed to more international environment. He returned 1963 and went to Helsinki polytechnic but also was active in the organizations responsible to aid to developing countries. 1965 he joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in its Bureau for Technical Co-operation. 1973 president Urho Kekkonen accredited him as Finnish ambassador for Tanzania, Zambia, Somalia and.
Music of Finland - the 1970s. Leevi Madetoja's 1924 Pohjalaisia, an operatic allegory about Russian oppression during the previous few years, became extremely popular during the 1920s. At roughly the same time, Juha, an opera by Aarre Merikanto, was virtually ignored by critics and audiences; it is now known as one of the best works of Finnish opera. The 1930s saw composers like Uuno Klami and Yrjö Kilpinen rise to popularity with nationalist works. Swedish-speaking composers like Einar Englund and Erik Bergman also worked with a more continental attitude. In the 1940s, Joonas Kokkonen, Usko Meriläinen and Einojuhani Rautavaara gained popularity and added important technical innovations to Finnish music. The 1950s saw an increase in international attention on Finnish music and soon helped modernize Finnish composition. Revival in the modern age Since the 1960s, Sinfonia.
