Edward Próchniak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish politician
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Place of Birth: Puławy, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland
About Edward Próchniak
- Edward Próchniak (Polish pronunciation: ['?dvart 'prux?ak]; 4 December 1888 in Pulawy – 21 August 1937) was a leading Polish communist purged by Stalin. He joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in 1903.
- After the Russian Revolution he headed a department in the Polish Commissariat of the People's Commissariat for Nationalities in Russia and was a member of the Polish Section of the Bolshevik Party.
- From 1921 to 1924 he represented the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) Central Committee on the executive of the Communist International, and was a member of the Comintern executive 1922–37, and of its Presidium in 1925–30. As a member of the politburo of the KPP in 1936–37, Próchniak was summoned from Paris to Moscow in July 1937 and arrested on 8 July 1937 by the NKVD.
- He was imprisoned initially in the Lubyanka prison, and then interrogated in Butyrek, where he had been a prisoner in Czarist times.
- Despite severe torture, he allegedly denied accusations of being an agent of the Polish Military Organization (POW).
- Próchniak was sentenced to death on 21 August 1937 and shot the same day.
- He was posthumously rehabilitated on 7 May 1955.
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