Santeri "Santtu" Nuorteva (29 June 1881 – 31 March 1929), born Alexander Nyberg, was a Finnish-born Soviet journalist and one of the first members of the Finnish parliament. Nuorteva served in the Finnish parliament as a member of the Social Democratic Party from 1907–1908 and 1909–1910. Nuorteva emigrated to the United States in 1911 and played a leading role in the sizable Finnish-language socialist movement in America, editing at various times he edited the magazines Säkeniä ("The Spark") and the newspapers Toveri ("The Comrade") and Raivaaja ("The Pioneer"). He was the official spokesman in America for the Finnish Socialist Revolutionary government of 1918 and, after its overthrow, was influential in the official affairs of the government of Soviet Russia in the United States. In 1920 he was deported to Soviet Russia.
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29 June 1881
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31 March 1929 (aged 47)
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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