Hendrik Allik (15 March 1901 – 8 May 1989) was an Estonian communist politician and a long-term member of the Estonian Communist Party.
Early life
Hendrik Allik worked for the Baltic Cotton Factory in 1916–1922 and as a contributing editor for magazines and newspapers.
During the 1920's, Allik became politically active. He was elected to the Estonian Parliament and, in November 1924, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Trial of the 149 due to the illegal nature of the Estonian Communist Party. In prison Allik continued to edit illegal communist newspapers, such as the Vangimaja Kiir.
However his imprisonment lasted only until 1938, when the president of Estonia, Konstantin Päts, pardoned the communists subsequently allowing for Allik's release. Following this Allik and other communists set up an underground organization from 1938 onwards.
