Finnish Forces

Olavi Paavolainen

SA-kuva

Olavi Paavolainen 1903 - 1964 was a Finnish essayist, journalist, travel book writer, and poet. one of the most influential literary opinion leaders between the two World wars in Finland. He represented liberal and Europe oriented views of culture and had an eclectic eye for new ideas. 1940s he published a number of works that controversially criticised the members of the Nazi cabinet in Germany and later the Continuation War (1941-44) between Finland and the Soviet Union. He was posted after the outbreak of the Winter War to Mikkeli in eastern Finland, as adjutant to an infantry general Olavi Paavolainen died of alcoholism on July 19, 1964 at Kivelä hospital in Helsinki