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Risto Ryti


Born
in Huittinen, Satakunta, Finland
February 03, 1889

Died
October 25, 1956


Prime Minister of Finland during the Winter War,from 1939 to 1940. Later he served as 5th president of Finland,during the Continuation War, from 1940 to 1944.
Ryti served as a member of Parliament from 1919 to 1924 and from 1927 to 1929. During his first few years in Parliament, Ryti served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and later the Finance Committee. In 1921, the thirty-two-year-old Ryti was appointed finance minister in the government of Juho Vennola. He served in that position twice until 1924. In 1923 President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg appointed him chairman of the Bank of Finland, a post he remained in until he became prime minister in 1939. After Ryti resigned from the presidency in 1944, he was reappointed governor of the Bank ...more

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Sota-ajan muistelmat
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“This trial is a farce. The real prosecutor is not the state of Finland, but the government of one great power. The real defendants are not the persons who were picked on political grounds and now stand accused here. The real defendant is the Finnish people. The purpose of this trial is not to mete out maximum sentences on those accused, but for a Finnish court to declare that Finland was the aggressor in the war and that the Soviet Union was a peace-loving, wronged victim of an unjustified aggression. [Final statement during Soviet dictated "War-responsibility" mock trial, 1945]”
― Risto Ryti
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