Antonín Janoušek was a Czech

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 journalist and communist

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Originally an engine fitter, in 1895 Janoušek became a member of the social democratic party. In 1906 he became a workers journalists and a functionary of workers associations in Austria-Hungary

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In 1919 he led the Czech and Slovak section at the central committee of the Hungarian Communist Party

Hungarian Communist Party

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. During the period 20 June - 7 July 1919 he was the “chairman of the revolutionary committee” (predseda revolučného výboru) of the short-lived Slovak Soviet Republic

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. In 1920 he was sentenced by the Horthy

Miklós Horthy

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 regime in Hungary, then delivered to Czechoslovak authorities. In 1922 he moved to Soviet Russia

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, where he became a functionary of the International Workers Aid Council. He lived in Cheboksary

Cheboksary

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, Chuvashia. He died "in bed" as reported by the historian V. Nálevka.