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Mihas Charot

Died in 1937

Mihas Kudzielka, who wrote under the name Mihas Charot, was born on 7 November 1896 in Roudziensk, near Minsk. Trained at the teachers' college in Maladziečna, evacuated to Smolensk during the war, he made his debut in 1919, joined the Communist Party in 1920 and in 1923 co-founded the Maladniak group with others. Editor-in-chief of Savieckaja Biełaruś from 1925, he wrote in 1926 the screenplay of the first Belarusian feature film. Arrested in January 1937, he was shot on the night of 29 to 30 October 1937 in the political police prison in Minsk.

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