Pekka Siitoin Explained

Timo Pekka Olavi Siitoin (20 May 1944 in Varkaus, Finland  - 8 December 2003 in Vehmaa, Finland) was a Finnish neo-Nazi, occultist and a Satanist.

He was born in Varkaus, Finland. According to Siitoin, he was born to a German military officer and Finnish-Russian woman, but he was adopted after his birth.[1] In his youth he studied at the Theatre Academy of Finland and was a disciple of Finland's best known clairvoyant, . In the 1970s he became a neo-Nazi and founded several organizations. He saw himself as the leader of the Finnish Nazi movement but got at most a few dozen supporters. Siitoin also wrote books and pamphlets about politics.

Siitoin was an associate of the White Emigre satanist Boris Popper who allegedly provided guns and explosives for his groups.[2] [3] In 1977 Siitoin was convicted of inciting the arson of the printing house Kursiivi which printed the Communist newspaper Tiedonantaja and founding an organization forbidden in the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.[4] He was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison. Siitoin had earlier been fined, while convicted of cruelty to animals and vandalism against the Turku Synagogue. On 4 November 1977 the Finnish Ministry of the Interior closed down four of the organizations he had founded, as neo-Fascist and forbidden by the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.

In 1996, Siitoin ran for the city council of his town of Naantali and came within few votes of being elected, being the sixth most popular candidate.[5] [6] Siitoin died of esophageal cancer in Vehmaa, Finland.[7] He was buried in Hakapelto Cemetery in Naantali.[8]

A documentary film called Sieg Heil Suomi has been made about the Neo-Nazi activities led by Siitoin and Väinö Kuisma.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Suomessa on lakkautettu järjestöjä viimeksi 1970-luvulla – muistatko vielä surullisen kuuluisan Naantalin uusnatsin? . Mäkilä . Ville . 1 September 2018 . . fi . 23 February 2021.
  2. Aleksi Mainio : Terroristien pesä. Suomi ja taistelu Venäjästä 1918–1939. Siltala 2015, luku "Pomminheittäjä saapuu Brysselistä", sivut 255-261
  3. Mesikämmenen blogi 2.8.2013 : Kuka oli Boris Berin-Bey?
  4. Web site: Pekka Siitoin Was the New Face of Neo-Fascism in Finland [in Finnish]]. 24 July 2017. 4 May 2015. Finnish Broadcasting Company. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150506042418/http://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2015/05/04/pekka-siitoin-oli-uusfasismin-kasvot-suomessa. 6 May 2015.
  5. Turun Sanomat 26.7.1996.
  6. News: Uusnatsi vei pommin kirjapainoon ja sytytti talon palamaan Lauttasaaressa 1977: Taustalta paljastui äärioikeistolainen saatananpalvoja, joka oli aikansa omituisimpia hahmoja . . fi.
  7. Web site: The Leader of Finnish Neo-Nazis Pekka Siitoin Dead [in Finnish]]. 24 July 2017. 13 December 2003. Ilta-Sanomat. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170724151805/http://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000000254227.html. 24 July 2017.
  8. Web site: VLS - Eri syistä tunnettuja henkilöitä . fi.
  9. Web site: Sieg Heil Finland (1994) . 12 February 2024 . IMDb.

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