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Pyotr Masherov, Leader of Soviet Belarus (died 1980)
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Soviet Belarusian resistance leader and politician (1919-1980)
Pyotr Mironovich Masherov was a Soviet partisan, statesman, and one of the leaders of the Belarusian resistance during World War II who governed the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from 1965 until his death in 1980.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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