Flashcards: Czechoslovak communists

Vladimír Remek (born 26 September 1948) is a Czech politician and diplomat as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot.

Karel Kosík (26 June 1926 – 21 February 2003) was a Czech Neomarxist philosopher.

Ivan Olbracht (born Kamil Zeman) (6 January 1882, Semily, Bohemia – 20 December 1952, Prague) was a Czech writer, journalist and translator of German prose.

František Hrubín (17 September 1910 – 1 March 1971) was a Czech poet and writer.

Jaroslav Handlíř (1888 - 1942) was a Czech politician and soldier who was a leader in both Czechoslovak and international communism and later joined the Social Democratic Party of Czechoslovakia.

Ivan Sviták (10 October 1925 in Hranice na Moravě – 20 October 1994 in Prague) was a Czech philosopher, critic, and poet who ranked among Europe's most prominent proponents of Marxist humanism.

Andrej Bagar (29 October 1900 – 31 July 1966) was a Slovak film actor.

Valter or Walter Roman (October 9, 1913 – November 11, 1983), born Ernst or Ernő Neuländer, was a Romanian communist activist and soldier.

RSDr. Vasil Biľak (11 August 1917 – 6 February 2014) was a Slovak Communist leader of Rusyn origin.

Miroslav Štěpán (5 August 1945 – 23 March 2014) was a Czechoslovak politician.

Ondřej Sekora (25 September 1899, Brno – 4 July 1967, Prague) was a Czech painter, illustrator, writer, journalist and entomologist.

Jan Drda (April 4, 1915, Příbram – November 28, 1970, Dobříš) was a Czech prose writer and playwright.

Vladislav Vančura (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvlaɟɪslaf ˈvantʃura]) (23 June 1891, Háj near Opava – 1 June 1942, Prague) was an important Bohemian (Czech) writer active in the 20th century, who was killed by the Nazis.

Jindřich Plachta, born Jindřich Šolle (1 July 1899 – 6 November 1951) was a Czechoslovak film actor.

Countess Klára Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka (Kája; January 18, 1898 – April 12, 1941) was a Hungarian-born noblewoman, who later became a Czechoslovak Communist and revolutionist.

Adolf Burger (born 12 August 1917, Kakaslomnic (aka Nagy-Lomnicz, German: Großlomnitz, Slovak: Veľká Lomnica, Szepes County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire) is a Jewish Slovak typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. The film The Counterfeiters, based largely on his memoirs, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Jiří Pelikán (7 February 1923 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia – 26 June 1999 in Rome, Italy) was a Czechoslovakian journalist and member of parliament, then a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party.

Karel Dufek (born January 24, 1916) is a former Czechoslovak diplomat and a Spanish Civil War veteran who served in the International Brigades.

Emanuel Famíra (November 15, 1900, Hlinsko – January 6, 1970, Prague), was a Czech sculptor and painter.

František Laurinec (born 19 August 1951, Veľké Uherce) is a former president of Slovak Football Association (SFZ).

Jiřina Švorcová (May 25, 1928 – August 8, 2011) was a Czech actress and pro-Communist activist.

Eugen Fried (13 March 1900 – 17 August 1943) was a Czechoslovak communist who played a leading role in the French Communist Party in the 1930s and early 1940s as the representative of the Communist International.