People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio A president shaped by agrarian reform and wartime compromise
- Konstantin Päts Konstantin Päts Head of Estonia's government in the independence war, later dictator of the 'era of silence'
- Zoltán Tildy Tildy Zoltán The Reformed pastor-president who declared neutrality before Soviet tanks
- Urho Kekkonen Urho Kekkonen The long-serving president who made neutrality a national strategy
- Ferenc Nagy Nagy Ferenc Smallholder premier of Hungary's second republic, forced out by Soviet-backed communists