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Brūno Kalniņš

Latvian politician

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Brūno Kalniņš
Kalniņš in 1936
Deputy of the Saeima
Personal details
Born	(1899-05-07)7 May 1899 Tukums, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died	26 March 1990(1990-03-26) (aged 90) Stockholm, Sweden
Political party	Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
Alma mater	Riga Technical University
Profession	Engineer

Brūno (also: Bruno) Haralds Kalniņš (7 May 1898 – 26 March 1990) was a Latvian social democratic politician and historian. He was the son of prominent social-democratic politicians Pauls Kalniņš and Klāra Kalniņa.

Political career[edit]

Kalniņš was one of the leading figures of the social-democratic youth movement in interwar Latvia, and an elected member of the Saeima. As a key social-democratic activist, he was arrested and exiled to Sweden as a result of the authoritarian coup d'étatbyKārlis Ulmanis in 1934.^[1]

Kalniņš returned to Latvia in 1940 following the Soviet occupation, initially serving as a political officer of the Latvian Army (then renamed as the Latvian People's Army) in the run-up to the armed forces' full incorporation into the Red Army. Later he became a lecturer in Marxist politics at the University of Latvia. During the occupation of Latvia by Nazi Germany, Kalniņš was arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, but released in 1944.

After World War II he lived in Sweden, where he wrote several books on Baltic and Russian history and helped re-form the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party in exile. Although his later writings were critical of the Soviet régime in his homeland, many Latvians could not forgive him for his collaboration with the Soviets in 1940–41.

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