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Joe Slovo

1926 - 1995

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Yossel Mashel "Joe" Slovo (23 May 1926 – 6 January 1995) was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist. A Marxist-Leninist, he was a long-time leader and theorist in the South African Communist Party (SACP), a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a commander of the ANC's military wing uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Slovo was a delegate to the multiracial Congress of the People of June 1955 which drew up the Freedom Charter. He was imprisoned for six months in 1960, and emerged as a leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe the following year. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Joe Slovo is the 13,436th most popular politician (up from 14,602nd in 2024), the 123rd most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 157th in 2019) and the 46th most popular Lithuanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Joe Slovo ranks 13,436 out of 19,576. Before him are Elisabeth, Countess of Vermandois, George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Alfonso López Pumarejo, Francesco II Acciaioli, Isaías Medina Angarita, and Kim Yong-chun. After him are Robert Zoellick, Oleksiy Danilov, King Zhending of Zhou, Constantine, Johan Ferner, and Henry Knox.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Joe Slovo ranks 291. Before him are Shinichi Hoshi, Julie London, Myung Rye-hyun, Vira Vovk, Julie Adams, and Rafael Lesmes. After him are Theo Adam, Rafiq Nishonov, Baltazar, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, Danièle Delorme, and Sven Axbom. Among people deceased in 1995, Joe Slovo ranks 186. Before him are Rick Aviles, Jack Clayton, Olga Taussky-Todd, Agustín Gaínza, Frank Silva, and Vladislav Listyev. After him are Anatoly Tarasov, René Wellek, Karl Gruber, Sterling Morrison, Gavriil Kachalin, and József Bencsics.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Joe Slovo ranks 123 out of 328. Before him are Jonas Staugaitis (1868), Osip Piatnitsky (1882), Władysław Kozakiewicz (1953), Maironis (1862), Aharon Barak (1936), and Jacques Sernas (1925). After him are Michał Elwiro Andriolli (1836), Emil Młynarski (1870), Žemaitė (1845), Stanisław Witkiewicz (1851), Aušra Augustinavičiūtė (1927), and Donald Kagan (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lithuania

Among politicians born in Lithuania, Joe Slovo ranks 46. Before him are Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas (1880), Inga Ruginienė (1981), Algirdas Butkevičius (1958), Jonas Staugaitis (1868), Osip Piatnitsky (1882), and Aharon Barak (1936). After him are Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius (1882), Grigory Gershuni (1870), Stanisław Narutowicz (1862), Meir Vilner (1918), Irena Degutienė (1949), and Vladas Mironas (1880).

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