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Estonian politician
Hugo Villi Kukke
(1 March 1898, in Pala Parish (now
Peipsiaare Parish
),
Kreis Dorpat
? 3 August 1942,
Sverdlovsk
,
Russian SFSR
) was an
Estonian
politician and newspaper editor. He was a member of the
IV Riigikogu
and
V Riigikogu
.
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From 1932 until 1933, he was Minister of Education and Social Affairs. Following the
Soviet occupation of Estonia
in 1940, Kukke was arrested in
Tallinn
in 1941 and sentenced to death by a military tribunal of the USSR. He was executed in Sverdlovsk in 1942.
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