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Martin Scheinin
Do you speak Finnish? If you do, you could see that Scheinin´s past membership is mentioned in Finnish Wikipedia (including references to SKP sources from the 1980s), and has been for years. Scheinin has never denied this; in the HS article he merely states that his ideology underwent a change in the late 1980s from communism to liberalism. While we should not characterise him as a communist nowadays, history can not be changed. The fact that his opponents often refer to his background (whether their criticism is perceived to be justified or not is not relevant to us) only underlines the notability of this fact of his personal history, since it has a habit of resurfacing every time Scheinin is in the news, whether he likes it or not. Scheinin´s complaint about Jussi Niinistö concerned Niinistö´s rhetoric where he compared Scheinin to the Taleban, not the fact of his SKP past. In any case, the police chose not to investigate (because they did not believe they had the authority to do so). If you wish to continue this, I suggest you use the article´s talk page. --Jaakko Sivonen (talk) 22:50, 14 March 2019 (UTC)