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Old 02-25-2004, 02:46 AM   #81
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Walter Ulbricht, HSU, 1893 - 1973.

On the13. August 1961 with the concent of the Warsaw Pact nations the DDR under Walter Ulbricht built the Berlin wall.


Tischler.
1912 Eintritt in die SPD.
1919 Mitbegründer der KPD.
1929-46 Mitglied des ZK der KPD.
1933 Emigration in die Sowjetunion.
1943 Mitbegründer des Nationalkommittee Freies Deutschland in der UdSSR.
1945 Rückkehr in die Sowjetische Besatzungszone (SBZ) als Leiter der Initiativgruppe Berlin ("Gruppe Ulbricht").
1946-73 Mitglied der Politischen Verwatlung (PV), später (ab 1949) des Politbüros (PB).
1946-50 stv. Vorsitzender der Sozialistischen Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED).
1950-53 Generalsekretär des Zentralkommittees der SED.
1953-71 Erster Sekretär des Zentralkommittees der SED.
1960-73 Vorsitzender des Staatsrates.
1954-60 Vorsitzender der Sicherheitskommission.
1960-71 Vorsitzender des Nationalen Verteidigungsrates (NVR).
1971 entmachtet, Erich Honecker wird sein Nachfolger.
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German communist leader and head of East Germany (1960–73).

He joined the German Communist Party after World War I and was elected to its central committee in 1923. He led the party in Berlin (1929–33), then fled abroad after the Nazi takeover. As an agent for the Comintern, he persecuted Trotskyites and other deviationists. In 1945 he returned to the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany, helped form the Socialist Unity Party (SED) in East Germany, and served as its general secretary (1950–71). He served as deputy premier of East Germany (1949–60) and as chairman of its council of state (1960–73). A constant foe of West Germany, he built the Berlin Wall in 1961. He exercised rigid control over East Germany while developing its industrial strength. He was forced to retire as first secretary of the SED in 1971 when the Soviet Union opened new relations with West Germany, but he retained his position as head of state until his death
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Old 02-25-2004, 02:48 AM   #82
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Ramon Lopez (Merkander, Ramon)

Frank Jacson alias Jaques Monard alias Ramon Mercader was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the highest sentence given in Mexico. He was relesed in 1960.
His real identity had been known since 1950.
Mercader flew to Mocow via Havanna. Where he was renamed Ramon and awarded the "Hero of the soviet Union".
He was only allowed to have contact with two famillies and worked with comrades and the children of the soldiers from the Spanish Civil War on the History of this conflict.

(Trotzkis Schrei verfolgte ihn für den Rest seines Lebens)? still checking on this!

In 1974 he asked Fidel Castro if he could return home to Cuba. There he died in 1976 with Bone Cancer.
He is buried in Moscow under the name Lopez Ramon Iwanowitsch.

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Old 02-25-2004, 02:57 AM   #83
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Few missing photos

+ all I have so far fond on Stiepan Vajda (I don't know if this is the one):

"ppor. Stepan Vajda padol 6.4.1945 pred 19-tou hodinou pri obrane predmostia pri mestečku Tworków. Odstrelovač ho trafil do hlavy, keď ju vysunul nad poklop veže z dôvodu prieskumu pred ústupom"
=podporuchik (= soviet mlodshiy lieitienant) died on 6.04.1945 before 7pm at the defence of ? (area before bridge??) near town of Tworków. The bullet (?) hit him in the head, when he moved his head over baricade(?) (...) (I don't understand the rest, as I don't speak Czech).
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Old 02-25-2004, 03:00 AM   #84
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"...when he moved his head over baricade(?) (...) (I don't understand the rest, as I don't speak Czech).
That's probably not a barricade, but reather the tank hatch, as the text is about czech tankists in RKKA
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Old 02-25-2004, 03:03 AM   #85
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Husak

"Gustav Husak was born in Bratislava in 1913. He trained as a lawyer and in 1933 joined the Communist Party in Slovakia. During the Second World War he was a member of the Czech Resistance movement and in 1944 was elected onto the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

After the war Husak worked for the Slovak Communist Party but in 1951 was imprisoned for having dissent political views. Convicted as an opponent of Joseph Stalin Husak was imprisoned from 1954 to 1960.

Husak eventually proved his political loyalty and in 1963 was allowed to work for the Academy of Sciences. Five years later he became First Secretary of the Slovak Communist Party.

In January 1968 the Czechoslovak Party Central Committee passed a vote of no confidence in Antonin Novotny and he was replaced by Alexander Dubcek as party secretary. Husak, a Dubcek supporter, became his deputy.

During what became known as the Prague Spring, Dubcek announced a series of reforms. This included the abolition of censorship and the right of citizens to criticize the government. Newspapers began publishing revelations about corruption in high places. This included stories about Novotny and his son. On 22nd March 1968, Novotny resigned as president of Czechoslovakia. He was now replaced by a Dubcek supporter, Ludvik Svoboda.

In April 1968 the Communist Party Central Committee published a detailed attack on Novotny's government. This included its poor record concerning housing, living standards and transport. It also announced a complete change in the role of the party member. It criticized the traditional view of members being forced to provide unconditional obedience to party policy. Instead it declared that each member "has not only the right, but the duty to act according to his conscience."

The new reform programme included the creation of works councils in industry, increased rights for trade unions to bargain on behalf of its members and the right of farmers to form independent co-operatives.

Aware of what happened during the Hungarian Uprising Dubcek announced that Czechoslovakia had no intention of changing its foreign policy. On several occasions he made speeches where he stated that Czechoslovakia would not leave the Warsaw Pact or end its alliance with the Soviet Union.

In July 1968 the Soviet leadership announced that it had evidence that the Federal Republic of Germany was planning an invasion of the Sudetenland and asked permission to send in the Red Army to protect Czechoslovakia. Alexander Dubcek, aware that the Soviet forces could be used to bring an end to Prague Spring, declined the offer.

On 21st August, 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by members of the Warsaw Pact countries. In order to avoid bloodshed, the Czech government ordered its armed forces not to resist the invasion. Alexander Dubcek and Ludvik Svoboda were taken to Moscow and soon afterwards they announced that after "free comradely discussion" that Czechoslovakia would be abandoning its reform programme.

In April 1969 Husak was chosen to replace Dubcek as party secretary. Over the next few years he purged the government of Dubcek supporters and re-established Communist Party discipline. He also introduced moderate reforms and a new federalist constitution.

In 1987 Husak opposed the Perestroika policy of Mikhail Gorbachev. When it became clear that the overwhelming majority of people in Czechoslovakia supported Gorbachev, he resigned as general secretary.

After the collapse of communism government in November 1989, Husak was expelled from the Communist Party.

Gustav Husak died in 1991. "

Adopted from: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDhusak.htm
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Old 02-25-2004, 03:07 AM   #86
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Frank Jacson alias Jaques Monard alias Ramon Mercader wurde zu 20 Jahren Gefängnis, der Höchststrafe in Mexico, verurteilt. 1960 wurde er entlassen. Seine wahre Identität war seit 1950 bekannt. Mercader flog über Havanna nach Moskau. Dort erhielt er den Namen Ramon Lopez und den Orden 'Held der Sowjetunion'. Er durfte nur mit zwei Familien Kontakt aufnehmen und arbeitete mit Genossen, ehemaligen Bürgerkriegskindern, an einer Geschichte des spanischen Bürgerkrieges. Doch Trotzkis Schrei verfolgte ihn für den Rest seines Lebens.
1974 bat er Fidel Castro um eine Aufenthaltserlaubnis für Cuba. Dort starb er 1976 an Knochenkrebs. Begraben ist er in Moskau - unter dem Namen Lopez Ramon Iwanowitsch.

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I am not sure, but I thin that I have read somewhere that he hed "Hero of Cuba" as well.

And technical question: what's "Knochenkrebs"?
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More on Mercader:
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/cr...amon-mercader/
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I am not sure, but I thin that I have read somewhere that he hed "Hero of Cuba" as well.

And technical question: what's "Knochenkrebs"?
Al,
great work!

Sorry about the German I,ll translate the whole post later, "Knochenkrebs"
is bone Cancer.

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Gamal Abdu l-Nasser

(Alexandria 1918- Cairo 1970)
Egyptian president 1954-1970. Nasser came from a modest background as a son of a postman.
He got his education from the Military Academy 1938- 39. He participated in the war against Israel in 1948 as a major.
In 1949 he joined the Free Officers, who plotted against the non-constitutional British all- pervasive presence, the landowning elite and the weak and morally corrupt king. The Free Officers were responsible for the coup that deposed King Faruk from the throne in 1952, and it was Nasser who was the real leader, yet he still remained in the background. After a long fight over power with president Naguib he ousted him in the second attempt, on November 14.

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Mohammed Abdel-Hakim, Hakim Abdel Amer

Mohammed Abdel-Hakim
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11 Dec 1919 - 13 Sep 1967

Positions:
Where there are no dates, positions are ordered alphabetically.

Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces - Government of Egypt (1964 - 1967)

First Vice-President - Government of Egypt (1964 - 1967)

Second Vice-President - Government of Egypt (1961 - 1964)

Commander-in-Chief - Combined Armed Forces of Egypt, Libya and Syria (1958 - 1962)

Governor for Syrian Region (UAR) - Government of Egypt (1958 - 1961)

Commander-in-Chief - Egyptian Army (1952 - 1958)

Director - Office of the Head of State (1952 - ?)

Member - Free Officers' Movement.

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