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Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (born 1918)

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Pyotr Masherov

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.…
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Communist Party of Byelorussia

Political party in Belarus

The Communist Party of Byelorussia was the ruling communist party of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1922, that existed from 1917 to 1991.
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