Mauno Koivisto (1923-2017) life story was so extraordinary and the people’s popularity so great that he’s been called Finland’s last great man.

boxing day Yle publishes his life to tell the eight-part tv documentary series. Author Jari Tervo supplied by sets based on contemporary interviews and archive materials.

It complies with the shape of a couple of years ago, see Kekkonen-series, which Tervo also provided.

Tervo the first interviewee Koivisto-documentary series was mrs. Tellervo Koivisto . The meet chaperone at the Bank of Finland act Koivistojen a friend of the family Erkki Liikanen .

Kekkonen-documentary series ad in the picture Tervo had appeared bald, so mrs. Koivisto pointed his finger at kirjailjan the top of his head, and pointed out something missing.

He says, where’s the looping? I said that unfortunately I have no material for it too little. The meeting was really interesting, because Tellervo Koivisto is not only a witness, but the witness spouse career and life, Tervo recalls Yle interview.

entertainment programmes for the regulars

the television series Mauno Koivisto to raise in many ways the hat to the late statesman.

Jari Tervo pointed out that Koivisto was the first top politician appear on tv entertainment programs.

the prime minister once he was a popular guest to extra time, who collected, at best, a couple of million viewers in a country where a tv channel had a half.

– a Young, handsome, round-cheeked prime minister appeared on television as fun and relaxed – it was something else entirely, what the Finnish people had become accustomed to poliitiko night to wait.

Koivisto described himself as a media politician.

He associated it with the fact that he did not have the social democrats official position. He was never the party chairman or party secretary, and even mps. Publicity was his megafoninsa.

Entertaining tv personality in addition to Mauno Koivisto had other points in his pocket.

Koivisto rose harbor policy top.Yle communications tall, handsome, and, moreover, a war veteran

the workers in the family grew up Koivisto was a remote scout as a man of sequel to the war fronts and read after a day in school himself graduated from high school the heavy work, I suppose.

the social democratic party in 1947 joined Koivisto acquire political spurs when he was in the port of Turku dockers as. In the harbor was a war after the intense organization for the war against the communists.

at the Same time, Koivisto continued his studies at the university. Experience the harbour ended up in the end also the sociology dissertation topic. Academic career, reaching the port the guy quickly rose to the turku local legend.

His graces and affected many things; he was a tall, handsome man and, moreover, a war veteran. His personal courage and kunnokkuuttaan could not be questioned. He was also a wilful one’s own way, what people probably sensed, Jari Tervo’s guess.

Koivisto will soon be in demand, the kingdom’s top venues. Research work got to stay. Koivisto valttiin in 1957, the Helsinki Workers ‘ savings bank executive, later secretary of the treasury, the Bank of Finland director general, and on two different occasions as prime minister.

Urho Kekkonen, Mauno Koivisto and John Estonian. Yle’s programme information from the east to the west

He memory exacerbation of the disease in 1981, running in the end the real Manu-phenomenon. Kekkonen’s freeze fall sick and eventually resignation from his post Koivisto care the office of the president as prime minister.

the Dramatic stage of the season Koivisto overtook his own party the other candidates for president in the race.

In 1982, the premature elections, the first workers background to be elected president Mauno Koivisto caring role for two seasons until 1994. During the period in English and European time to change completely.

politician Koivisto turn YYA-Finnish coke the recession period towards European integration, encourage the council to lead on the road to democratic reforms and hosted by the great powers summit.

Jari Tervo posits that political documentary series hardly bring any earth-shattering new information koivisto’s career. However, it shows how the huge importance Koivisto was what English is now.

It is a handsome achievement, that he autocratic Kekkonen after parlamentisoi the Finnish political system and he led Finland to the west.

Tervoon do koivisto’s personality at least as much effect as his political actions.

He was already before this lempipresidenttejäni, but the documentary process, I began to like him even more. He is definitely the more fun of our presidents, and certainly the nature of peculiar.

Jari Tervo has submitted Koivisto-documentary sequences.Yle communications”He had a little authority”

Jari Tervo recalls New Finland once read an anecdote, which, in his opinion, describes well koivisto’s personality.

When the marks in the 1970s was devalued, the newspaper wrote he was late in the evening, the Bank of Finland director general Koivistoa, who responded thus: “I thought I took all the phones off the wall, and now I also take this”.

– This happened almost 50 years ago. Today, such behavior would be the Bank of Finland’s director of front-page news in three days, the difference would be required and the press would get hurt, Tervo said.

Tervolle new thing was Mauno Koivisto relationship with religion. He had not previously realized how meaningful faith was Koivisto.

He was deeply a religious man. Faith affected his life since he was a little boy runs to his father after the wake-up events. Faith is not, however, taken such a shape in public, that she would terribly explain to other people how they must live.

All Tervo documentary series for a talk by the people to testify the same: Koivisto was a truly original man.

He had access to unimaginable amount of biblical wisdom, folk wisdom and Russian proverbs. He had quite a bit of authority. He came to conclusions and chose beliefs by investigating things for themselves, not because someone said something. He’s not been shy to go their own way.

Tuomo Björksten / Yle

television documentary series Koivisto starts on boxing day, 26.12 TV1:s clock 20. At the same time began the radio series of Highly secret, Mauno Koivisto Yle Radio 1. It focuses on koivisto meaning of the various themes, such as the Soviet union, of love and Kekkonen’s challenge of the season.

Fixed caption: in the Photo was John from Estonia.

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