Juho Kusti Paasikivi

7th President of Finland (1870-1956)

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Lived 1870–1956, aged 86

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1870–1956
Aged 86

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Updated 2026-05-29

Finnish president (1946–56) who spent a decade in diplomatic posts before steering the country through postwar reconstruction. Paasikivi shaped Finland's delicate Cold War balancing act with the Soviet Union.

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Juho Kusti Paasikivi was a Finnish politician who served as the president of Finland from 1946 to 1956. Representing the Finnish Party until its dissolution in 1918 and then the National Coalition Party, he previously served as senator, member of parliament, envoy to Stockholm (1936–1939) and Moscow (1940–1941), and Prime Minister of Finland. He also held several other positions of trust, and was an influential figure in Finnish economics and politics for over fifty years.

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