Henryk Walecki
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Henryk Walecki aka Maksymilian Horwitz (1877-1937) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish communist movement. He was a member of the Polish Socialist Party - Left (PPS-Lewica) from 1906 and the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) from 1918. Sat on its Central Committee (1918-20, 1923-24) and politburo (1923-24). From 1921 he was a senior official of the Communist International , working in Spain, Belgium and Greece. Arrested by the NKVD on 22 June 1937 and executed.