Finnish finance minister apologizes for racist blog posts, writing about shooting immigrants

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Finnish finance minister apologizes for racist blog posts, writing about shooting immigrants
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\u0027If they gave me a gun, there’d be bodies on a commuter train,\u0027 Riikka Purra wrote in one of the posts from 2008, referring to immigrants

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