Finnish Election 1926 (Red Finland)

The 1926 elections were the first elections in which speeches were made to persuade the people to their view. The first was made at Helsinki voting hall with Ali Aaltonen speeking of his enemy Kullervo Manner with

"This man is not fit to rule a country, as his wish is to bow down to another. He looks at this nation as it must belong to the Soviets, it does not. If he wishes to make another country a puppet of the soviets let him. He does not have the right to face the nation after all he has done, after trying to forcifully make us a state within the USSR."