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

Comintern The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet Union, Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to ...

in 1923–24. A National Labor Confederation member, he joined the Bolshevik party in 1917, and was responsible for organizing its Czech section after 1918. A delegate to the

Second Comintern Congress The 2nd World Congress of the Communist International was a gathering of approximately 220 voting and non-voting representatives of Communist and revolutionary socialist political parties from around the world, held in Petrograd and Moscow from Jul ...

(1920), he was excluded from Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 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

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to collect and publish the writing of his one time friend Jaroslav Hašek, a task he continued also after the

1948 Communist coup Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ...

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Hůla, Břetislav, 1894-1964
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