Józef Unszlicht
Politician
1879 – 1938
Who was Józef Unszlicht?
Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Unshlikht, a Bolshevik revolutionary activist, one of the founders of the Cheka, and Soviet government official of Polish-Jewish extraction from the Masovian region. Unschlicht participated to and in fact initiated some of the worst excesses of the Bolshevik revolution including mass murders of political opponents. In 1924, he was replaced by Genrikh Yagoda who continued and amplified Unschlicht's previous policies.
A member of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania from 1900 and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1906, Unszlicht took part in Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution and in 1918 joined the Red Army.
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- Born
- Dec 31, 1879
Mława - Also known as
- Jozef Unszlicht
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Poland
- Profession
- Died
- Jul 28, 1938
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on July 23, 2013
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