Zmicier Zhylunovich

Politician

1887 – 1937

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Who was Zmicier Zhylunovich?

Zmicier Zhylunovich was a Belarusian poet, writer and journalist, known under pen name Tsishka Hartny, and a political leader.

He was the first head of a Soviet government in Belarus, the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia.

In 1937, during the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, he was arrested as an "enemy of the Belarusian people" and committed suicide in prison.

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Born
Oct 13, 1887
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Died
Apr 11, 1937

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on July 23, 2013

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