11 Facts About Adolf Taimi

Adolf Pietarinpoika Taimi was a Finnish-Soviet Bolshevik and a member of the People's Delegation during the Finnish Civil War.

Adolf Taimi joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902.

Adolf Taimi was deported to the city of Nikolsky, Leningrad Oblast.

In Helsinki, Adolf Taimi worked in a Russian Army shipyard and was active in the Bolshevik Military Committee.

Adolf Taimi had contact with Finnish Social Democrat radical circles.

In 1912 Adolf Taimi was arrested again and exiled to Siberia for four years.

In Finland, Adolf Taimi's mission was to make contact with Bolshevik soldiers and Finnish Social Democrats.

Adolf Taimi worked all the while in close cooperation with the Bolshevik-led Helsinki Council.

Adolf Taimi was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1924.

Adolf Taimi was arrested in Finland in 1928 and received a long prison sentence.

Adolf Taimi was released after the Winter War along with Toivo Antikainen.