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Mikola Abramchyk ( be, Мікола Абрамчык, russian: Николай Абрамчик, he, מיקעולא אברמצ'יק) (16 August 1903 – 29 May 1970) was a

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

ian journalist and emigre politician of Ottoman

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and

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descent and president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile during 1943–1970.

Life

He attended school in Radashkovichy. In 1923, after the

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, he emigrated to

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

, lived in

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, and studied agricultural sciences there. He was a member of the Association of Belarusian Student Organization. In 1930 he went to Paris, where he developed the Belarusian association of workers, ''Chaurus''. He published the magazines ''Biuleten'' and ''Recha''. He worked in the emigration for cultural and political organizations. He was a member of the Belarusian Committee of Self-leadership in Berlin. In 1943, he was removed by the Germans from the Committee in charges of conducting prohibited activities and arrested. After being released, he returned to Paris, where he was chosen the president of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in exile. He showed particular concern about the fate of Belarusian refugees. Throughout the time was under surveillance by the

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because of his rumoured Jewish background and suspicion of conspiracy to the detriment of the

Third Reich Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

. After the war he was involved in international

anticommunist Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed after the 1917 October Revolution in the Russian Empire, and it reached global dimensions during the Cold War, when the United States and the ...

activities. On 28 November 1947, in Paris, Abramchyk was elected as president of the

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which became a competitor of the Belarusian Central Council led by Radasłaŭ Astroŭski. In 1950, in

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he has published the brochure ''I Accuse the Kremlin of the Genocide of My Nation''. In the late 1950s and the 1960s, he chaired the League for the Liberation of the Peoples of the USSR, comprising representatives of the

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, Azerbaijanis,

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, Georgians, Belarusians and North Caucasians. Abramchyk is buried at the

Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (french: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise ; formerly , "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France (). With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Notable figure ...

(division 59).Як знайсці магілу Міколы і Ніны Абрамчык

References

Mikoła Abramčyk
s profile at the

Rada BNR The Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic ( be, Рада Беларускай Народнай Рэспублікі, Рада БНР, Rada BNR) was the governing body of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Since 1919, the Rada BNR has bee ...

's website. Retrieved on April 29, 2007.
Абрамчык Мікола (Mikola Abramchyk) at slounik.org
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