biography
| name: |
Clementis, Vladimir
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pronunciation:
[klementees]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–52)
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| biography:
| Czech statesman, born in Tesovec, Slovakia. He studied at Prague, became a Czech Communist MP (1935), and in 1945 was vice-minister of foreign affairs in the first Czech post-war government. A chief organizer of the 1948 coup, he succeeded Masaryk as foreign minister, but was forced to resign in 1950 as a ‘deviationist’. Following a political purge, he was hanged. |
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