Zygmunt Modzelewski

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Zygmunt Modzelewski (15 April 1900 – 18 June 1954) was a Polish communist politician, professor, economist, and diplomat.

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Life and career Modzelewski was born in to the family of a railroad worker. He was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and Communist Party of Poland. From 1923 to 1937, he was a member of the French Communist Party and even joined its Central Committee. In 1937 he moved to the Soviet Union and was arrested by NKVD in the same year in the Great Purge. Despite torture he refused to give false confession and was released in 1939. During the Second World War he joined the Union of Polish Patriots and the Central Bureau of Polish Communists and became the first director of Polpress, a precursor to the Polish Press Agency. In May 1943 he was involved in the formation of the Polish 1st Tadeusz Kościuszko Infantry Division in the camp in Seltsy. At the rank of captain he became a lecturer in the Political Section of the Division. He joined the Polish Workers' Party in 1944 (and later its successor, the Polish United Workers' Party) and eventually became the member of its Central Committee. On January 2, 1945, he was appointed Polish ambassador to the USSR. He held this position…Citește mai mult

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(in Polish) Biuro Edukacji Publicznej IPN "Zygmunt Modzelewski (1900–1954)" – informacja historyczna Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish) Aleksander Kochański, Modzelewski Zygmunt [w:] Polski Słownik Biograficzny t. XXI, Warszawa-Kraków-Gdańsk-Wrocław 1976 (wersja elektroniczna IPSB Archived 2024-08-14 at the Wayback Machine)