Gusta Fučíková
Czech politician, writer and publicist (1903–1987)
Gusta Fučíková (born Augusta Kodeřičová; 28 August 1903, Ostředek – 25 March 1987) was a Czech politician, women's rights activist, publicist and editor. A member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, she served as a deputy of the "Chamber of the People of the Federal Assembly (one of the two chambers of the Czechoslovak Federal Assembly) during the period of normalization. She was an activist of women's and left-wing peace movements and the wife of the Communist journalist and resistance fighter Julius Fučík, who was executed by Nazi Germany during during the World War II.
Early life
Gusta Kodeřičová was born on 28 August 1903 in Ostředek into a working-class family. Her mother died when she was still a child. After graduating from a business academy in Prague in 1921, she briefly studied at the Higher School of Commerce but did not complete her degree.
She met Julius Fučík in 1923 and joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia the following year. During the interwar period, she worked at the Ministry of Education, the International Trade Union Federation, the Soviet trade mission, and later as a translator for the communist newspaper Rudé právo.
Personal life
In the 1920s, she married journalist Vladimír Borin-Ležák. According to later biographical accounts, the marriage was primarily intended to secure a state marriage grant, which was reportedly used to finance a communist political meeting. The marriage ended in divorce in 1933.
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