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Ladislav Mňačko

Died in 1994

Ladislav Mňačko was born on 29 January 1919 in Valašské Klobouky, in Moravia, and grew up in Martin, where he trained as a pharmacy clerk. After a failed flight towards the Soviet Union, he was caught in 1940 on the German-Dutch border and sent to forced labour in the Reich, from which he escaped in 1944 to join the partisans of Moravia. An editor at Rudé právo and at Pravda from 1945 to 1953, then a critic of Stalinism, he left for Israel in 1967, returned in 1968 and went into exile in Austria after the invasion. Back home in 1990, he died in Bratislava on 24 February 1994.

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