Enn Kokk (19 June 1937 – 19 August 2019) was a

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Social Democrat Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soc ...

ic politician, journalist and writer. Kokk was born in

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and his family fled to Sweden in 1944. For many decades, Kokk was active within the leadership of the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Fo ...

as an official, starting 1968. He was, amongst other things, chief editor for the party's magazine ''

Aktuellt i Politiken ''Aktuellt i Politiken'' ( Swedish: ''Current Issues in Politics''; abbreviated as ''AiP'') is a Swedish language political and news publication which is one of the media outlets of the Social Democratic Party. It has been in circulation since 19 ...

'' for a few years. In 2000, he left the work in the program commission of the party due to his disagreement with the party's decision to support a Swedish membership in the

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. During the referendum campaign on the issue in 2003, Kokk was a board member in the organisation ''Social Democrats Against the

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''. He married

Birgitta Dahl Rut Birgitta Dahl (born 20 September 1937) is a Swedish former politician of the Social Democratic Party. Dahl was a Member of Parliament from 1969 to 2002. She served as Minister for Energy from 1982 to 1990, as Minister for the Environment fr ...

in 1986. He died on 19 August 2019 at the age of 82.S-veteranen Enn Kokk är död

External links

Official blog

References

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