Revealing Images XIV

Leevi Among the Mightingales? Leading Finnish Communists visiting a Soviet factory, Summer 1973. I'm the one in a striped Marimekko T-shirt (midway back and left); in front of me Reijo Kalmakurki, the Chairman of SOL, the hard-line Socialist Student Union, and Taisto Sinisalo, the hard-liner Vice-President of the Finnish Communist Party. Trying to peek over Mr. Sinisalo's shoulder, Arvo Aalto, the Party's Euro-Communist Secretary General and my then Master. In front, to the right, Markus Kainulainen and Urho Jokinen, two stone-hard Finnish Stalinists, and behind Jokinen, Hannu Vuorio, the then hard-liner Vice-President of the (socialist) Democratic Union for the Finnish Youth, now a known Finnish mystery writer. O, Time... Photo by an unknown Soviet photographer. From illustration to an article on my work by Jarkko S. Tuusvuori in niin&näin, a Finnish magazine for philosophy (issue 4/2005).