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František Jaromír Kolár
František Jaromír Kolár (29 May 1919 – 7 September 1984) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak party leader, communist journalist, columnist and writer. Biography Kolár was born into a Jewish family, but as a young man he completely cut off all ties to his Jewish heritage. He devoted his life to communist ideology; at the age of 16, in 1934, he joined the Komsomol. During World War II he was in Great Britain and fought in the foreign Czechoslovak army, but at the same time adhered to the ideals of the upcoming socialist revolution. In 1945 he returned to his homeland and worked as a journalist for the newspaper ''Rudé právo'', and also worked as an economics expert in the Central Committee Commission on National Economy. In the early 1950s, Kolár was accused of adherence to Zionism and sentenced to 15 years in prison; František denied the charges and was eventually acquitted. From 1965 to 1967 he was deputy editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief of ''Nová svoboda'' and the weekly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany, while the country lost further territories to First Vienna Award, Hungary and Trans-Olza, Poland (the territories of southern Slovakia with a predominantly Hungarian population to Hungary and Zaolzie with a predominantly Polish population to Poland). Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovak state, Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands. In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš formed Czechoslovak government-in-exile, a government-in-exile and sought recognition from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |