Elsa Karppinen
Elsa Dagmar Karppinen was a Finnish journalist and politician, born in Kemi. As an active communist at a time when the Communist Party of Finland was still illegal, she was imprisoned three times for a total of 12 years before the SKP was legalised as a result of the Moscow Armistice of 19 September 1944. She was subsequently elected to the Parliament of Finland, where she represented the Finnish People's Democratic League from 1945 to 1948.