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Maksymilian Horwitz Born September 6, 1877
Warsaw, PolandDied June 22, 1937 (aged 59)
Moscow, Russian EmpireNationality Polish Ethnicity Jewish Religion Atheism Maksymilian Horwitz (pseudonym: Henryk Walecki; 1877-1937) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement.
He was a member of the Polish Socialist Party - Left (PPS-Lewica) from 1906 and the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) from 1918 and sat on its Central Committee (1918-20, 1923-24) and politburo (1923-24). Starting from 1921 he was a senior officer of the Communist International, working in Spain, Belgium and Greece. He was arrested by the NKVD on 22 June 1937 and executed.
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