Hertta Elina Kuusinen (14 February 1904, Luhanka – 18 March 1974, Moscow)[1] was a Finnish Communist politician. She was a member of the central committee (1944-1971) and the political bureau of the Communist Party of Finland; member of Finland's parliament, the Eduskunta (1945–1972); general secretary (1952–1958); and leader of the parliamentary group of the Finnish People's Democratic League. In 1948, Kuusinen became only the second woman to serve as a Finnish cabinet minister.[2] She was the daughter of Soviet politician and one-time Finnish communist leader Otto Ville Kuusinen.[3]