Jan Šverma
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Jan Šverma was a Czechoslovak
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

 political activist, considered a national hero during the communist
Communism
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 regime.

He contributed to Rudé právo
Rudé právo
Rudé právo was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia....

, the official publication of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in Czech and in Slovak: Komunistická strana Československa was a Communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in Czechoslovakia that existed between 1921 and 1992....

 (KSČ) and was its editor-in-chief from 1936 to 1938. From 1929 he was a member of the KSČ Central Committee and Politburo. Šverma spent time in exile in Moscow
Moscow
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 and Paris
Paris
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 during the existence of the Nazi
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-backed Slovak State and became a close collaborator of Klement Gottwald
Klement Gottwald
Klement Gottwald was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia , prime minister and president of Czechoslovakia.-Early life:...

, who would become the first Communist leader of Czechoslovakia.

Šverma assumed the political leadership of Czechoslovak military units formed in the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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during the Nazi invasion of the USSR. He died in the Slovak mountains while leading an insurrection of Slovak communists against the Slovak State.
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