Arvo Tuominen

Arvo "Poika" Tuominen (5 September 1894 – 27 May 1981) was a Finnish communist revolutionary and later a social democratic journalist, politician and author. He was given his nickname in 1920 because of his boyish look.

Tuominen became a member of Finnish Communist Party's Central Committee and the director of the Finnish bureau. Yet, Tuominen had doubts about the Comintern based in Moscow, "Whose bread you eat, his songs you sing." Though he had faith in Lenin and the ultimate triumph of communism, Tuominen had difficulty accepting "Everything that you do for the good of the Soviet Union and communism is acceptable, hence morally right."

In 1956, Tuominen returned to Finland and published three books, Sirpin ja vasaran tie (The Way of the Hammer and Sickle) in 1956, Kremlin kellot (The Bells of Kremlin) in 1956, and Maan alla ja päällä (Underground and Above) in 1958.