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Toivo Vähä

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Finnish-Soviet intelligence officer (1901-1984)

WritersLived 1901 to 1984 · aged 83
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Toivo Juhonpoika Vähä was a Finnish-born Soviet colonel of the KGB. He fled to Soviet Russia after the 1918 Finnish Civil War and made a long career in the Red Army and the Soviet Border Troops. Vähä was one of the few Finnish exile revolutionaries who survived the Great Purge.

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Order of the Red Banner
Order of Lenin
Order of the Red Star
Order of the October Revolution
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Badge "25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"

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Toivo Juhonpoika Vähä was a Finnish-born Soviet colonel of the KGB. He fled to Soviet Russia after the 1918 Finnish Civil War and made a long career in the Red Army and the Soviet Border Troops. Vähä was one of the few Finnish exile revolutionaries who survived the Great Purge. He is best known for his role in the 1925 capture of the British super-spy Sidney Reilly during the Operation Trust.

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deceased
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Lived 1901 to 1984 · aged 83
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