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Article in Moscow newspaper – Jaroslav Martínek

An article in the Moscow daily Pravda dated 5 January 1929 reporting on the conviction of the “Czechoslovak spies” Horák and Martínek. Horák received the death penalty while Martínek had his death sentence commuted to 10 years in prison (Archive of the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Jaroslav Martínek

Born in 1900 in Bohemia. Moved to the USSR in 1923 as a teacher to the Czech minority. Arrested in 1927 and imprisoned on the Solovetsky Islands an...

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Article in Moscow newspaper – Jaroslav Martínek

Jaroslav Martínek

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