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Your support makes all the difference.Valtr Komarek, who died yesterday at the age of 82, was a left-wing Czech politician and economist who helped overthrow the country's communist regime. He briefly served as deputy premier of the first post-communist government.
Born on 10 August 1930 in the southeast town of Hodonin, Komarek became a Communist Party member after th Second World War. From 1964-67, he served as an adviser to the Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then minister of industry in Cuba's government.
In the 1980s, Komarek chaired a government economic institute but joined the anti-communist opposition in November 1989. He became one of the most visible faces of the so-called "Velvet Revolution" that ended communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
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