Karol Świerczewski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karol Świerczewski

Polish general

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1897

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1947

Profession: military personnel, politician

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Karol Waclaw Swierczewski (pronounced ['kar?l ?fj?r't???fsk?i]; callsign Walter; 22 February 1897 – 28 March 1947) was Pole serving as the Red Army general.
He was a Bolshevik party member and Soviet officer in the wars fought abroad by the Soviet Union including the one against Polish as well as Ukrainian Republics and in Republican Spain.
In 1939 he participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland again.
At the end of World War II in Europe he was installed as one of leaders of the Soviet-sponsored Polish Provisional Government of National Unity.
Soon later, Swierczewski died in a country-road ambush shot by the militants from OUN-UPA.
He was an icon of communist propaganda for the following several decades.