Vicente Uribe Galdeano ( Spanish: Vicente Uribe Galdeano , 1897 , Bilbao , Spain - 1961 , Prague , Czechoslovakia ) - a leader of the Spanish and international communist movement, an active participant in the republican movement during the Civil War of 1936-1939 , then a figure of the emigrant opposition to the dictatorship of Franco , one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Spain (KPI), Minister of Agriculture ( 1936 - 1939 ), party theorist and editor-in-chief of Mundo Obrero .
| Vicente Uribe Galdeano | |
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| Spanish Vicente Uribe Galdeano | |
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| Date of Birth | December 30, 1902 |
| Place of Birth | Bilbao |
| Date of death | July 11, 1961 (58 years old) |
| Place of death | Prague |
| Citizenship |  Spain  Czechoslovakia |
| Occupation | party theorist, chief editor of “ Mundo Obrero ” KPI |
| The consignment | Communist Party of Spain |
Biography
The half - basque is a semi - caste worker, a metallurgical worker. He joined the underground communist movement in Spain in 1923, and joined the party in 1927.
In 1936, he participated in the development of the manifesto of the anti-fascist Popular Front, which won the general parliamentary elections on February 16 of the same year.
After the outbreak of the civil war in Spain (1936-1939), he was a member of the KPI secretariat and was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the Socialist Government, headed by Francisco Largo Caballero and Juan Negrin .
After the defeat of the Republicans, he emigrated to Mexico , became part of the KPI Secretariat in this country. During World War II, Vicente Uribe was the leader of the Spanish Communist Party in America. After being expelled from the party on charges of anti-Soviet activity, Jesus Hernandez in 1944 became the second most important person in the KPI. In May 1946, Uribe left Mexico and moved to Paris , where, together with Antonio Miche, he took over the leadership of the party in France .
In 1950, the French government outlawed the CRPD and carried out a series of arrests and detentions of the Spanish Communists. V. Uribe, along with Enrique Lister and Antonio Miche, moved to Czechoslovakia to Prague. In 1954, at the Vth Congress, he made a report on the party program, after which a confrontation arose between young members of the KPI led by Santiago Carrillo and Fernando Claudin and part of the party’s veterans led by V. Uribe and Dolores Ibarruri .
In February 1956, V. Uribe took part in the XX Congress of the CPSU . During the outbreak of the cult of personality, Stalin was accused of his support. After that, V. Uribe left politics and died in Prague in 1961.