This article presents a brief political biography of the Czech National Socialist politician and journalist Josef (Jóža) David (1884–1968), a well-known figure in the Czechoslovak foreign resistance during the First and Second World Wars and one of the representatives of the Czechoslovak exile community in Great Britain in 1942–1945. At the same time, the article presents his memoirs, or rather a part thereof, which covers the period 1938–1948 and is currently being prepared for a critical book edition.
It also shows how fatal the Trotskyite stigma was for non-conformist members of the Communist movement and how symptomatically the fate of both protagonists reflects the turbulent evolution of the domestic radical left-wing movement and Czechoslovak- Soviet relations during the inter-war period.
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