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Last Czechoslovak communist leader Milous Jakes dies at 97

| July 15, 2020 12:03 AM

PRAGUE (AP) — Milous Jakes, the Communist Party leader in the former Czechoslovakia at the time of 1989's Velvet Revolution, has died. He was 97.

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