7th President of Finland (1870-1956)
He steered Finland through its most precarious decade — two wars with the Soviet Union, then a peace that required accepting Moscow as a permanent fact of geography. The realism wasn't popular, but it kept the country sovereign.
Paasikivi served as Finland's president from 1946 to 1956, after stints as prime minister in 1918 and 1944–1946, envoy to Stockholm and Moscow, and member of parliament. Representing first the Finnish Party and later the National Coalition Party, he spent over fifty years shaping Finnish economics and politics. After the Second World War, he became the chief architect of Finland's postwar foreign policy, threading the needle between Soviet proximity and Finnish independence. Tenacious and temperamental by reputation, he approached diplomacy as a negotiation with immovable facts rather than wis…
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