Juho Kusti Paasikivi

7th President of Finland (1870-1956) · Finland · Politicians · Died at 86

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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.

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1956Died14 December 19561954Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the FalconAwardOrder of LeninAward1950Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of LibertyAwardKnight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Saint OlavAwardOrder of the ElephantAward1946Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of FinlandAwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of FinlandAward1940Cross of Liberty, 1st Class with starAward1938Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar StarAward1933Grand Cross of the Order of the CrownAward1920Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of FinlandAward1919Iron Cross on white ribbonAward1913Order of Saint Anna, 2nd classAward1905Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd classAward1870Born27 November 1870

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Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 1940s

Awards

Order of Lenin1954

Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Falcon1954

Finnish Olympic Cross of Merit, First Class1952

Order of the Elephant1950

Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Saint Olav1950

Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Liberty1950

Royal Order of the Seraphim1947

Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland1946

Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland1946

Cross of Liberty, 1st Class with star1940

Commanders Grand Cross of the Order of the Polar Star1938

Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour1935

Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown1933

Grand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland1920

Cross of Liberty, 1st Class1919

Iron Cross on white ribbon1919

Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class1913

Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class1905

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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 wishes. The Paasikivi Society, founded two years after his death in 1956, carried his legacy forward during the Cold War by promoting the neutrality doctrine he'd built.

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Finland

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