Kaarle Leivonen

Kaarle Herman "Kalle" Leivonen was a Finnish wrestler who competed in the featherweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Later life

Leivonen moved from Pietarsaari, Grand Duchy of Finland, to the United States in 1914. The Great Depression triggered a migration among Finnish Americans to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s, and in 1932, Leivonen followed thousands of other Finnish-American workers. He moved to Kondopoga in Soviet Karelia, where he worked as a painter. In 1938, during the Great Purge, Leivonen was arrested. He was sentenced to death on 21 September 1938, and two days later he was executed near Petrozavodsk. Leivonen was rehabilitated in 1989.