Urho Kekkonen - in Popular Culture

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  • The vote count from the 1978 elections was broadcast on the radio, and has been shown numerous times in television documentaries. The monotonous reading out of the votes, in groups of five, is still well-recognized in Finnish popular culture, and broadly quoted and paraphrased; "Kekkonen, Kekkonen, Kekkonen, Kekkonen, Kekkonen."
  • Matti Hagelberg uses a caricature of Kekkonen as the main character in his comic album with the same name.

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