Jozef Lettrich

Jozef Lettrich was a Slovak writer and politician.
Lettrich is best known as the leader of the non-Communist, big tent Democratic Party between 1944 and 1948. Lettrich opposed the Nazi-allied Ľudaks who ruled Slovakia during World War II, and he was one of the organizers of the 1944 Slovak [National Uprising]. After the war, his party won the majority of Slovak votes in the 1946 [Czechoslovak parliamentary election]. Following the Communist Uprisings of February 1948, he fled Slovakia for the United States where he was one of the most prominent Czechoslovak emigres, known for his anti-communist writings.