Eino Sakari Repo (September 6, 1919, Isokyrö – December 15, 2002,

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) was the president of state owned

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from 1965 to 1969 and head of the radio from 1969 to 1974. His time as president was known as Repo's Radio. Eino S. Repo took part in the

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and

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, and left the field in 1944 as captain. In 1948 he graduated as a Candidate of Philosophy from the

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; his main subject was

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to ...

. Repo was a free literary critic and wrote criticisms to the ''

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'' newspaper and '' Parnasso'' magazine. Repo was known as a radical, and soon ''Uusi Suomi'' didn't like his writing any more, and also he didn't have a very good relationship with the main critic Veikko Antero Koskenniemi. From 1958 to 1964 Repo was a reporter for '' Apu'' magazine, and then became a program manager at

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. When Finnish Broadcasting Company's president Einar Sundström retired in 1965, Repo became his successor as candidate of Agrarian Party. One of his supporters in Finnish Broadcasting Company was

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, then the

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. During the Repo presidency, big reforms were made at Finnish Broadcasting Company. During the Repo era

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student extremism was growing also in Finnish Broadcasting Company. Repo gave support to left-wing students and to their critical social programs, these offers started the so-called ''Repo's Radio''. Many critics wrote that Finnish Broadcasting Company during Repo presidency wasn't so much radio as it was a political institute. Finnish Broadcasting Company was blamed for supporting the lefts' victory in the

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elections in 1966. Repo was not elected to a second five-year term to Finnish Broadcasting Company, but he was made head of the radio. He retired in 1974. During the Zavidovo scandal, Kekkonen's advisor Antero Jyränki told in his questioning that he gave the place of documents which were the part of the Zavidovo notepad, to Repo.

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Eino S. Repo.
375 humanists, 3 March 2015. University of Helsinki. {{DEFAULTSORT:Repo, Eino S. 1919 births 2002 deaths People from Isokyrö Finnish politicians Finnish military personnel of World War II 20th-century Finnish journalists