Břetislav Hůla (30 March 1894 – 2 April 1964) was a Czech Communist politician, newspaper editor, and translator. He was a leading cadre of

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in 1923–24. A National Labor Confederation member, he joined the

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party in 1917, and was responsible for organizing its

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section after 1918. A delegate to the Second Comintern Congress (1920), he was excluded from

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in 1925, ostensibly for rightist leanings. After withdrawing from politics he worked as a translator from Russian and German. In 1947 he was commissioned by publisher Adolf Synek to collect and publish the writing of his one time friend

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, a task he continued also after the 1948 Communist coup, now on behalf of the Ministry of Information.

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Hůla, Břetislav, 1894-1964
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