biography
| name: |
Groot, Paul (Saul) de
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pronunciation:
[duh khroht]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1986)
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| biography:
| Dutch politician and journalist, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was raised in Antwerp, where he became a diamond worker and one of the founders of the Belgian Communist Party. He moved to the Netherlands in 1926, joining the executive of the Communist Party in 1930 and becoming secretary-general (1938–67). From 1938 he was editor of Het Volksblad, later De Waarheid, and was in the underground during the German occupation. After World War 2 he was in parliament until 1966. He was a convinced Stalinist, supported the Chinese version of communism, and was against Krushchev and his successors. He retired in 1967 and was deprived of honorary membership of the party in 1978 after differences of opinion. |
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