Harry Pollitt

Harry Pollitt was a British communist who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) from July 1929 to September 1939 and again from 1941 until his death in 1960. Pollitt spent most of his life advocating communism. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, Pollitt was an adherent particularly of Joseph Stalin even after Stalin's death and disavowal by Nikita Khrushchev. Pollitt's acts included opposition to the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War and Polish–Soviet War, support for the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War, support for the war against Nazi Germany, opposition to wartime censorship of the Left Wing press, campaigning for the opening of a second front, defence of the communist coup in Czechoslovakia, and support for the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary.

22 November 1890

Born on the same birth date (22 November 1890): Charles de Gaulle

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