The Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, Swedish: Finlands kommunistiska parti, abbreviated SKP) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.
SKP did not participate in any elections with its own name. Instead, front organisations were used. In the 1920's the communists took part in the Socialist Workers' Party of Finland (1920–1923) and the Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders (1924–1930). Both were banned by the state. In 1944, a new front, Finnish People's Democratic League was formed. The SKP controlled these fronts but they always had a prominent minority of non-communist socialists.
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