Pekka Siitoin

Pekka Siitoin
Pekka Siitoin
	Siitoin in 1976
Personal details
Born	May 20, 1944; Varkaus, Finland
Died	8 December 2003 (aged 59); Vehmaa, Finland
Citizenship	Finland
Political party	Patriotic Popular Front
Other political; affiliations	Finnish Rural Party; National Democratic Party
Children	6
Occupation	Politician, actor, photographer, film director, writer, publisher and musician

Timo Pekka Olavi Siitoin (20 May 1944 in Varkaus, Finland – 8 December 2003 in Vehmaa, Finland) was a Finnish neo-Nazi, occultist and a Satanist.

Life

Early life

He was born in Varkaus, Finland. According to Siitoin, he was born to a German military officer and Finnish-Russian woman, but he was adopted after his birth.^[1] However according to a Security Police report, he was born to Hulde Sifia Rissanen and Olavi Valdemar Siitoin, who were a financially well-off married couple.^[2]^[3]

Pekka Siitoin completed his conscription service in Niinisalo in the Artillery Brigade and was discharged as a corporal.^[4] He studied at a business school in Turku and founded his own photography and filming company. The film company Siitoin-Filmi mainly made advertising and travel films. Later, the company published occult, ufology and political literature, most of which Siitoin himself wrote under pseudonyms such as Peter Siitoin, Jonathan Shedd, Hesiodos Foinix, Peter von Weltheim, Edgar Bock and Cassius Maximanus.

In his youth he studied at the Theatre Academy of Finland and was a disciple of Finland's best known clairvoyant, Aino Kassinen [fi], who Siitoin claims introduced him to Satanism.

Political life

Siitoin had joined the Kokoomusnuoret (Youth of the National Coalition Party) in his youth, before joining the Finnish Rural Party in the early 1970s and serving as a vice-chairman of its municipal chapter.^[5] Following the breakup of the Rural Party, he would found the Patriotic Popular Front (Isänmaallisen Kansanrintaman), and considered himself to be Führer of the Finnish National Socialist movement.^[5] In 1971, Siitoin founded the Turku Society for the Spiritual Sciences.^[6]

Siitoin was an associate of the White Emigre satanist Boris Popper, who allegedly provided guns and explosives for his organizations, which were stolen from the Defence Forces.^[7]^[8] In 1977, Siitoin was convicted of inciting the arson of the printing house Kursiivi which printed the Communist newspaper Tiedonantaja and founding an organization forbidden in the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.^[9] He was sentenced to five years and seven months in prison, however only served three year and a half years. Siitoin had earlier been fined, while convicted of cruelty to animals and vandalism against the Turku Synagogue. In November 1977 the Finnish Ministry of the Interior closed down four of the organizations he had founded, as neo-Fascist and forbidden by the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.

Siitoin maintained contacts with National Renaissance Party of James Hartung Madole that likewise blended Satanism and Nazism. The Patriotic Popular Front (IKR) published National Renaissance Party material in Finnish, and Siitoin appeared in NRP's publications.^[10]^[11]

Siitoin would found the National Democratic Party (KDP) in the summer of 1978, to replace the Patriotic Popular Front, which had been banned. The KDP was never on the party register, nor was it even a registered association. However, it functioned like an official association and the party was organized into local departments, which were lead by local commanders in different areas.

For a short time, KDP belonged to the umbrella organization called the National Front (also known as National Coalition), which was founded in 1993 and was chaired by Väinö Kuisma. The other member organizations were the Aryan Germanic Brotherhood,^[6] the Aryan Union of Blood and the Finnish National Front.

In 1996, Siitoin ran for the city council of Naantali and came within few votes of being elected, being the sixth most popular candidate.^[12]

Siitoin died of esophageal cancer in Vehmaa, Finland.^[13] He was buried in Hakapelto Cemetery in Naantali.^[14] A documentary film called Sieg Heil Suomi has been made about the Neo-Nazi activities led by Siitoin and Väinö Kuisma.^[15]

Publications

Musta Magia I [Black Magic I] (in Finnish). Turun hengentieteellinen seura. 1974. ISBN 951-99046-7-0.
Musta Magia II [Black Magic II] (in Finnish). Turun hengentieteellinen seura. 1975. ISBN 951-9360-00-X.
Työväenluokan tulevaisuus [Future of the Working Class] (in Finnish). Turun hengentieteellinen seura. 1975. ISBN 951-95271-3-3.
Paholaisen Katekismus [Devil's Catechism] (in Finnish). Kansallis-mytologinen yhdistys. 1977. ISBN 951-9360-17-4.
Laillinen laittomuus Suomessa [Legal Illegality in Finland] (in Finnish). Kansallis-mytologinen yhdistys. 1979. ISBN 951-9360-23-9.
Rotu-oppi [The Race Doctrine] (in Finnish). Kansallis-mytologinen yhdistys. 1983. ISBN 951-9360-28-X.
Demokratia vaiko Fasismi? [Democracy or Fascism] (in Finnish). Kansallis-mytologinen yhdistys. 1984. ISBN 951-9360-03-4.

References

^ Mäkilä, Ville (1 September 2018). "Suomessa on lakkautettu järjestöjä viimeksi 1970-luvulla – muistatko vielä surullisen kuuluisan Naantalin uusnatsin?". Turkulainen (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 February 2021.
^ Simola, Matti; Sirvio, Tuulia; Finland, eds. (1999). Isänmaan puolesta: Suojelupoliisi 50 vuotta. Jyväskylä: Gummerus. ISBN 978-951-20-5477-0.
^ "Isän valtakunta | Yle Areena". areena.yle.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-10-27.
^ "Ostaisitko oudon natsijohtajan sotilaspassin? – Huima hinta: 666 euroa". Länsiväylä (in Finnish). 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2024-10-27.
^ ^a ^b Keränen, Seppo (2019). Urho Kekkonen ja hänen vihamiehensä. Helsinki: Into. ISBN 978-952-351-149-1.
^ ^a ^b Häkkinen, Perttu; Iitti, Vesa (2022). Lightbringers of the North: Secrets of the Occult Tradition of Finland. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-64411-464-3. p. 162
^ Aleksi Mainio : Terroristien pesä. Suomi ja taistelu Venäjästä 1918–1939. Siltala 2015, luku "Pomminheittäjä saapuu Brysselistä", sivut 255-261
^ Mesikämmenen blogi 2.8.2013 : Kuka oli Boris Berin-Bey?
^ "Pekka Siitoin Was the New Face of Neo-Fascism in Finland [in Finnish]". Finnish Broadcasting Company. 4 May 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
^ The Finnish New Radical Right in Comparative Perspective, Jeffrey Kaplan, Published in Kyösti Pekonen, ed., The New Radical Right in Finland in the Nineties (Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press, 1999), page 13-14.
^ Fasismia, terrorismia vai nallipyssynatsien leikkiä? Julkinen keskustelu Isänmaallisen Kansanrintaman toiminnasta loppuvuodesta 1977 Piipponen, Marko ; Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja kauppatieteiden tiedekunta, Historia- ja maantieteiden laitos ; Faculty of Social Sciences and Business, Department of Geographical and Historical Sciences
^ "Uusnatsi vei pommin kirjapainoon ja sytytti talon palamaan Lauttasaaressa 1977: Taustalta paljastui äärioikeistolainen saatananpalvoja, joka oli aikansa omituisimpia hahmoja". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish).
^ "The Leader of Finnish Neo-Nazis Pekka Siitoin Dead [in Finnish]". Ilta-Sanomat. 13 December 2003. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
^ "VLS - Eri syistä tunnettuja henkilöitä" (in Finnish).
^ "Sieg Heil Finland (1994)". IMDb. Retrieved 12 February 2024.

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[1] Mäkilä, Ville (1 September 2018). "Suomessa on lakkautettu järjestöjä viimeksi 1970-luvulla – muistatko vielä surullisen kuuluisan Naantalin uusnatsin?". Turkulainen (in Finnish). Retrieved 23 February 2021.

[2] Simola, Matti; Sirvio, Tuulia; Finland, eds. (1999). Isänmaan puolesta: Suojelupoliisi 50 vuotta. Jyväskylä: Gummerus. ISBN 978-951-20-5477-0.

[3] "Isän valtakunta | Yle Areena". areena.yle.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2024-10-27.

[4] "Ostaisitko oudon natsijohtajan sotilaspassin? – Huima hinta: 666 euroa". Länsiväylä (in Finnish). 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2024-10-27.

[:0-5] Keränen, Seppo (2019). Urho Kekkonen ja hänen vihamiehensä. Helsinki: Into. ISBN 978-952-351-149-1.

[Häkkinen-6] Häkkinen, Perttu; Iitti, Vesa (2022). Lightbringers of the North: Secrets of the Occult Tradition of Finland. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-64411-464-3. p. 162

[Mainio-7] Aleksi Mainio : Terroristien pesä. Suomi ja taistelu Venäjästä 1918–1939. Siltala 2015, luku "Pomminheittäjä saapuu Brysselistä", sivut 255-261

[Mesikämmen-8] Mesikämmenen blogi 2.8.2013 : Kuka oli Boris Berin-Bey?

[9] "Pekka Siitoin Was the New Face of Neo-Fascism in Finland [in Finnish]". Finnish Broadcasting Company. 4 May 2015. Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

[10] The Finnish New Radical Right in Comparative Perspective, Jeffrey Kaplan, Published in Kyösti Pekonen, ed., The New Radical Right in Finland in the Nineties (Helsinki: University of Helsinki Press, 1999), page 13-14.

[11] Fasismia, terrorismia vai nallipyssynatsien leikkiä? Julkinen keskustelu Isänmaallisen Kansanrintaman toiminnasta loppuvuodesta 1977 Piipponen, Marko ; Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja kauppatieteiden tiedekunta, Historia- ja maantieteiden laitos ; Faculty of Social Sciences and Business, Department of Geographical and Historical Sciences

[12] "Uusnatsi vei pommin kirjapainoon ja sytytti talon palamaan Lauttasaaressa 1977: Taustalta paljastui äärioikeistolainen saatananpalvoja, joka oli aikansa omituisimpia hahmoja". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish).

[13] "The Leader of Finnish Neo-Nazis Pekka Siitoin Dead [in Finnish]". Ilta-Sanomat. 13 December 2003. Archived from the original on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

[14] "VLS - Eri syistä tunnettuja henkilöitä" (in Finnish).

[15] "Sieg Heil Finland (1994)". IMDb. Retrieved 12 February 2024.

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