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...Johann Koplenig, onetime shoemaker, served on the Comintern's Executive Committee, is now chairman of the Austrian Communist Party...
Austria's four Communist deputies (Ernst Fischer, Johann Koplenig, Franz Honner, Viktor Elser) wrote to Moscow to ask whether something could not be done about the prisoners. Last week Generalissimo Stalin graciously replied: "The Soviet Government has decided to speed up the release and transport of Austrian prisoners of war . . . in such a way as to grant the return of all Austrians before the end of the year. . . ." As an afterthought, he added: "The Austrian Government will be informed of [this]. . . ." Vienna's Communist Volksstimme jubilantly pointed the moral: "Today not only Austrian women but the entire Austrian...
...organization of the new government resembled others in Russian-occupied Europe. The Communists had always been a minuscule party in Austria. Now they held three key government posts. Party workhorse Johann Koplenig, an old-time Communist, was one of three Councillors to the Chancellor. Franz Honner, another Party stalwart, was given the strategic Interior Ministry (police). Smooth-talking Ernst Fischer held the Ministry of Education and Religion, where he would dispense propaganda and handle Catholic Austria's relations with the Vatican. This Communist trio (all just returned from exile in Moscow) seemed the real power behind Dr. Renner...
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