Jaroslav Handlíř place of birth Bohemia
Biography
Early years
Born in 1888 in Bohemia, Handlíř was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War.  He was captured on the Eastern Front and became a Bolshevik following the October Revolution of 1917 and helped found a Czechoslovak communist group in Russia.
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