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unusual facts about Maurice Thorez



Serge Avedikian

In 1947, influenced by Joseph Stalin's and Maurice Thorez's propaganda, they left to rejoin the motherland, where Avedikian attended the French school of Yerevan.

Tim Buck

Together with Ernst Thälmann of Germany, Maurice Thorez of France, Palmiro Togliatti of Italy, Earl Browder of the United States, and Harry Pollitt of Britain, Buck was one of the top leaders of the Joseph Stalin-era Communist International.

Torez

The city was renamed from Chystyakove to Torez in honor of the French Communist Party leader Maurice Thorez, in 1964, the year of his death.


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