Current Affairs Leader of student resistance to 1948 Communist takeover Josef Lesák dies at 88
Josef Lesák, a leader of the student resistance to the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948, has passed away at the age of 88. Lesák was also the youngest deputy in the country’s parliament when the Communists seized power – and became the first MP they put in prison.
Klement Gottwald
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