Kazys Giedrys

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Giedrys

Kazys Giedrys (born March 15, 1891 in Salos near Rokiškis , † December 27, 1926 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian revolutionary and politician .

Life

Giedrys had been a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) since 1917 . In October 1917 he organized the fighting group of Lithuanians in Petrograd , which took part in the fight against the troops of General Krasnov . In 1918 he became head of the Lithuanian section of the RKP , then representative of the Provisional Workers 'and Peasants' Government of Lithuania at the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR . Giedrys was a delegate of the 8th party congress of the RKP (1919), and the I and II World Congress of the Comintern (1919 and 1921). From September 1919 to early 1920, he was head of the illegal local offices of the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belarus in of White Poland occupied Vilnius . In June 1920 he was arrested. After an exchange of political prisoners between Soviet Russia and bourgeois Lithuania in March 1921, Giedrys came to Moscow. From November 1921 to February 1923 he was secretary of the Lithuanian section at the RKP Central Committee. Since October 1923 he stayed in Kaunas, where he continued the illegal party work for the Communist Party of Lithuania (KPL). There he also became a member of the Central Committee of the KPL. Again in prison from 1924 to 1926, he resumed his illegal activities after his release. After the Smetonas military coup on December 17, 1926, Giedrys was arrested and shot along with three other leading Lithuanian communists - Karolis Požėla , Juozas Greifenbergeris and Rapolas Čarnas .

Honors

A group of sculptures by Bronius Vyšniauskas and Napoleonas Petrulis erected in Kaunas in the 1970s in honor of the four communists has since been removed and is now in Grutas Park .

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personal data
SURNAME Giedrys, Kazys
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian revolutionary and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Salos at Rokiškis
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1926
Place of death Kaunas