Seamstress
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Martta Koskinen was a seamstress in Helsinki in the Second World War. She belonged to the post-civil war (January-May, 1918) generation. For them, the war represented the failure of Finland’s unity as a nation. And for her and other socialists, one of the legacies of the civil war was persecution. Martta and her fellow revolutionaries continued their fight even though it could have cost them their lives.