Fuchik biography

He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Prague University. Already at the age of 18, he became a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and soon one of the editors of the printed bodies of the Communist Party - the newspaper Rude Law and the magazine Creative. The reports and essays of the FOCHEK were outstanding samples of party journalism of those years.

In the center of literary and critical interests of the journalist-the development of the concept of socialist art, to which he paid a lot of attention.

And on the basis of the impressions received, he created the book “In the country where our tomorrow is already yesterday”, which he dedicated to the Soviet Union, and then a significant cycle of artistic essays. The diverse activity of the Fuchyk of the second half of the 10ths is imbued with the spirit of an anti -fascist struggle. On the instructions of the party, he wrote combat articles and notes in which he called the people for fascist invaders and the fight against the invaders.

And during the Second World War, Julius, as a convinced anti -fascist, was an active figure in the resistance movement. During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, they published a cycle of patriotic articles and essays under the pseudonym. And as a member of the illegal Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Fuchik led the underground publications of the party, in which his appeals to the Czech people were published.

In April, Julius was arrested by Gestapo. While in the Prague prison of Pankrats, he wrote his most famous book “Report with a loop on the neck”, in which a famous line appeared, which later became a quote: “People, I loved you! Be vigilant! This book was published after the death of the writer in the year, and later translated into 70 languages ​​of the peoples of the world.

It is a documentary and artistic evidence of the heroic struggle of the anti-fascist underground movement of Czechoslovakia during the Second World War. This is one of the significant works of socialist realism in Czech literature, where Fuchik’s thoughts about the meaning of life, about the measure of responsibility of each person for the fate of the world are also summarized.

For this book in the year, the author was awarded the International World of World posthumously. In the summer of the year, Fuchik was transferred to a concentration camp in Germany, subjected to torture, and then, by decision of the Berlin court, sentenced to execution. Julius Fuchik was executed in Berlin on September 8. In memory of the figure of the Czechoslovak communist movement, the Union of Journalists of the Czech SSR established the Julius Fuchik Award, and in the Soviet Union in some cities of the country, the streets were named after him.

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