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Julij Feldesi

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Julij Feldesi in 1940

Julij Feldesi (Ukrainian: Юлій Фельдеши, Hungarian Földesi Gyula, 1875–1947) was a Rusyn printer and politician.

Biography

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Julij Feldesi was born in Szobránc, in the Ung County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Sobrance, Slovakia). After his studies, he became a printer in Ungvár (today Uzhhorod, Ukraine). He was successful in this occupation, with clients as far away as the United States.[1]

After the treaty of Trianon he became the member of a Czechoslovak political party, the Ruthenian Peasants Party.[1] It was as a member of this organization that he was elected member of the Senate of Czechoslovakia, serving from 1935 to 1938.[1] After the Hungarian annexion of Carpathian Ruthenia, Feldesi was elected member of the Diet of Hungary.[1]

In 1944, when the Red Army advanced into Carpathian Ruthenia, Feldesi was arrested and later committed to life imprisonment as a collaborator.[1] He died in the Sambir prison in 1947.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c d e Ivan Pop, Enciklopedija Podkarpatskoj Rusii. Uzhhorod, 2001; pg. 381.