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Alois Rašín

Czech statesman
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Alois Rašín (born Oct. 18, 1867, Nechanice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died Feb. 18, 1923, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech statesman, one of the founders and first finance minister of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. A leader of the Czech revolutionary organization Omladina, Rašín was arrested and imprisoned for conspiring against the Austrian authorities after nationalistic rioting in Prague in 1893. Granted amnesty in 1895, he joined the Young Czech Party and then founded a...

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