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The circumstances of Šverma's death is described in the book Odsudíde je k život (published in exile in 1976) by Vladimír Přikryl. He was a direct witness to the discovery of an exhausted Šverma, who, according to the witness's testimony, was left lying in the snow by
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mountain range during a snowstorm on 10 November 1944, while leading an insurrection of Slovak communists against the Slovak State.
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was formerly called Švermova. Many places named after communist-era heroes were renamed after the
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during the Nazi invasion of the USSR. He died of exhaustion on the mountain Chabenec in the
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but did not finish his studies and dedicated himself to political activism.
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Czech Communist activist, journalist and resistance fighter (1901–1944)
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Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Czechoslovakia (1935–1939)
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