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> Good ole Arvo! Makes one wonder though why the hell did all those 1st
> generation Finnish immigrants (like Hall's parents/ grandparents) became
> socialists right after they left Finland? What they faced in US was clearly
> better standard of living, and how did they react to it, by protesting!
Well, most of those people _were_ Socialists when they left Finland.
They went to the US because there the freedom of thought and other human
rights were at another level compared to the post-civil war Finland were
Communists and Socialists were chased after, harassed and even
lynch-mobbed (this happened in America only after WW2 at the same scale
when they began to see the Soviets as their enemies - I think that the
US wasn't ever so much against Socialism as against USSR as the opposite
superpower). I think the US Socialist movement was actually strongest in
around 1930..?
Anyway, all didn't go to America, many went to Soviet Union, Soviet
Karelia especially.
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