Leopold Lewin
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Leopold Lewin (b. 28 July 1910 in Piotrków Trybunalski, d. 7 December 1995 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, journalist and translator. He graduated the Warsaw University in 1931. In the years 1939-1944 on emmigration in USSR. Arrested by NKVD, he became a Polish communist, joining the Union of Polish Patriots there, and was an author of many socrealistic poems (like 'Song of Unitied Parties' - 'Pieśń Partii Zjednoczonych'). After the war he was an editor of several Polish newspapers and the Secretary General of the Polish Literary Society.