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Encyclopedia > Aleksander Prystor

Aleksander Prystor (1874-1941) was a Polish politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1931 to 1933. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 367 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (490 × 800 pixel, file size: 61 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) licence: pl:szablon:Senat from http://www. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 367 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (490 × 800 pixel, file size: 61 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) licence: pl:szablon:Senat from http://www. ... Year 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link with display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


In 1908 he took part in the Bezdany raid. Bezdany raid was a train robbery carried out on the night of 26/27 September[1] 1908 in the vicinity of Bezdany (now Bezdonys, near Wilno, now Vilnius) on a Russian Empire passenger and mail train by a group of Polish revolutionaries, led by future Polish national hero and dictator...


Between 1912 and 1917 he spent in russian prisons before being released in 1917. In march 1917 he joined Polish Military Organisation. After independce he became secretary in the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. He fought as a volunteer in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920. He worked for few ministries (Labour, Industry and Commerce) Polska Organizacja Wojskowa (POW, Polish for Polish Military Organisation) was a secret military union created by Józef Piłsudski in November of 1914, during the Great War. ... Combatants Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Republic of Poland Ukrainian Peoples Republic Commanders Mikhail Tukhachevsky Semyon Budyonny Józef PiÅ‚sudski Edward Rydz-ÅšmigÅ‚y Strength 950,000 combatants 5,000,000 reserves 360,000 combatants 738,000 reserves Casualties Dead estimated at 100,000...


Between 1931 and 1933 he served as Prime Minister of Poland. After that he became the chairman of the Polish Senate. This is a list of Prime Ministers of Poland. ... The Polish Senate The Senate (Senat) is the upper house of the Polish parliament. ...


After the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, he fled to neutral Lithuania, where he was arrested in 1940 by the NKWD, after the annexation by the USSR. He died in 1941 in the Butyrka prison in Moscow. Black Ravens by Boris Vladimirski, a depiction of the cars used by NKVD agents. ... Butyrka prison (Russian: Бутырская тюрьма, Butyrka Бутырка is a colloquial term) was the central transit prison in pre-revolutionary Russia, located in Moscow. ...

Preceded by
Walery Slawek
Prime Minister of Poland
1931–1933
Succeeded by
Janusz Jedrzejewicz

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Now nearly extinct, the Aleksander chassidim (also written as Alexander) were originally one of the larger sects in pre-holocaust Poland.
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