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Antonín Janoušek

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Antonín Janoušek

Antonín Janoušek (22 August 1877, Nymburk – 30 March 1941) was a Czech journalist and communist.

Originally an engine fitter, in 1895 Janoušek became a member of the social democratic party. In 1906 he became a workers journalists and a functionary of workers associations in Austria-Hungary.

In 1919 he led the Czech and Slovak section at the central committee of the Hungarian Communist Party. During the period June 20 - July 7, 1919 he was a leader (predseda revolučného výboru) of the short-lived Slovak Soviet Republic. In 1920 he was sentenced by the Horthy regime in Hungary, then delivered to Czechoslovak authorities. In 1922 he moved to the (communist) Soviet Union, where he became a functionary of the International Workers Aid Council. He lived in Cheboksary, Chuvashia. He died "in bed" as reported by the historian V. Nálevka.[1]

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