Václav Vacek (11 September 187718 January 1960) was a

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writer, and a

communist Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

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. He served as a Senator in the National Assembly of

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and after the Prague Uprising as the Mayor of Prague. He was also a founding member of the

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: ''Komunistická strana Československa'', KSČ) was a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992. It was a member of the Cominte ...

after the schism in Czechoslovak Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1921.

Legacy

The Prague Metro station

Roztyly Roztyly () is a Prague Metro station on Line C, located on the northern edge of Kunratický les in Prague 11. It was opened on 7 November 1980 as part of the extension from Kačerov to Kosmonautů (currently Háje). The station was formerly ...

was named after him until the

revolution In political science, a revolution (Latin: ''revolutio'', "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolts against the government, typically due ...

in 1989.

References

External links

Official website of City of Prague
1877 births 1960 deaths People from Libochovice Mayors of Prague Communist Party of Czechoslovakia politicians Charles University alumni 20th-century Czech writers Czechoslovak writers {{CzechRepublic-mayor-stub