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Antoni Wąsik (born 24 February 1886 in Warsaw, died 19 May 1956) was a Polish socialist and trade union activist, Siberian exile, and pro-Stalin prisoner. He was the father of Stanisław Wąsik, an activist of the Polish Socialist Party in exile.
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Antoni Wąsik (born 24 February 1886 in Warsaw, died 19 May 1956) was a Polish socialist and trade union activist, Siberian exile, and pro-Stalin prisoner. He was the father of Stanisław Wąsik, an activist of the Polish Socialist Party in exile.
Antoni Wąsik a adăugat o fotografie
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Biography He was born on 24 February 1886 in Warsaw, to the family of Teodor and Teofila née Waśkiewicz. From 1904, he was a member of the Polish Socialist Party. In 1905, as a student, he organized a school strike at the Praga Gymnasium in Warsaw. He was sentenced to exile in Siberia, where he stayed from 1907 to 1911. He passed his matriculation exam in Tobolsk. From 1911, he worked in Odessa, including as the secretary of the Council of Representatives of the Industry and Trade of Southern Russia, and later as the vice-chairman of the State Defense Council for the Odessa district. During World War I, he was active in the Polish Socialist Party – Left in Odessa. He participated in the February Revolution of 1917 and was elected a member of the Odesa City Council. He returned to Poland in February 1923. In the interwar period, he was an activist of the Polish Socialist Party, a member of the district committee in Praga, and after 1928, a member and vice-chairman of the district workers' committee in Warsaw. He was a member of the PPS Central Council from 1928 to 1934 and again from 1937. As a trade…
