STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 580, sig. 109-4327

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The actions were supported by illegal channels and by numerous boycotts and demonstrations.The communist women worked propagandistically at their workplaces in factories of great importance for the war the workers employed there and the soldiers who were allowed to leave. The government suspended approximately 3oo municipal councillors who were communist-enforced, removed some 3oo communist representatives in municipalities and provinces from their mandates, banned 159 Communist newspapers, disbanded numerous trade unions and other organizations, and released almost all members of the CPF who were employed in state and community operations from their workplaces. The communists, sentenced to probation, were sent to a concentration camp and sentenced to death by the application of government regulations in May/only communists and 22 to long-term prison sentences. IV. The position of international communism on the present war. This in itself consistent attitude and opinion of the French Communist Party on the fundamental question and attitude to war represented a purely tactical solution to the aims set for it, the implementation of the world revolution, which was the success of the official political line of the