Otto Bernhard Grimlund (30 December 1893 – 15 September 1969) was a Swedish

Sweden

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 Communist politician.

Originally a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party

Swedish Social Democratic Party

The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...

 he joined the revolutionary left-wing in the party split of 1917 and represented the Swedish Social Democratic Left Party at the founding of the Communist International in Moscow

Moscow

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 in 1919.

Together with the Swiss

Switzerland

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 Socialist Fritz Platten

Fritz Platten

Fritz Platten was a Swiss Communist.After the collapse of the Second International, Platten joined the Zimmerwald Movement and became a Communist....

, Otto Grimlund had been the main organizer of Lenin’s 1917 trip from the exile in Switzerland, through Germany

Germany

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 and Sweden, back to Russia

Russia

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.

Grimlund was in the leadership of Sweden’s Communist Party 1918 - 1925, and living in Moscow

Moscow

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 for many years, he was a member of the leadership of the Comintern

Comintern

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. But he moved from the Soviet Union and left the party after the rise of Stalinism

Stalinism

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 in Russia.

Grimlund rejoined the Social Democratic Party approx. in 1930.

Condemning Stalinism, Grimlund remained to call himself a Communist all his life, and kept a signed photograph of Lenin on the wall in his office.