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Laco Novomeský

Died in 1976

Ladislav Novomeský was born on 27 December 1904 in Budapest, the son of a tailor from Senica, where the family later returned. Trained at a teachers' college, he taught, joined the Communist Party in 1925, worked on the editorial staff of Pravda and took part in founding the journal DAV. A member of the party's clandestine leadership during the war, and vice-president of the Slovak National Council in 1944, he was Commissioner for Education from 1945 to 1950. Arrested in 1951, sentenced in 1954 to ten years in prison for bourgeois nationalism, released in 1955 and rehabilitated in 1963, he died in Bratislava on 4 September 1976.

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