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Augustin Voloshin (1874-1945) was a Subcarpathian polititian, teacher, and essayist.
He was born in 1874 in Kelesin, Subcarpathia (province of Hungary). He studied at Uzhorod School of Theology and at Budapest University. He became a Greek-catholic priest, from 1924 Papal chamberer. He was professor of mathematics at Uzhorod Teacher Institute from 1900-1917. In 1918, he became head of the Subcarpathian National Council, which in 1919 begged Czechoslovakia to confederate Subcarpathia into Czechoslovakia. This was realised in Autumn 1919. In 1925, he was voted as MP in Houses of Parliament in Prague. In October 1938, he was the head of the Subcarpathian Autonomous Region. During the total destruction of Czechoslovakia by Hitler's Germany, he tried to preserve Subcarpathian independency and became a subcarpathian president for few days (March 14, 1939) with the help of the rest of the Czechoslovakian army, which was fighting against the Hungarians, the collaborators of Hitler. On March 19, 1939, last Czechoslovakian troops retreated to the Romanian Kingdom's border, which was Czechoslovakia's ally. Subcarpathia was ocuppated by Hungary.
Voloshin fled to Prague, where he lived as private person. In March 1945, the Soviet communist army occupied Subcarpathia, set the Subcarpathians under communist dictature, and annexed Subcarpathia to Russia. The leftist government of Czechoslovakia did nothing against this. The Subcarpathians were robbed of their citizenship of Czechoslovakia, became "Russians," and many were arrested and sent into gulags and concentration camps in the USSR. All private property in Subcarpathia was confiscated and the land became socialistic, as the USSR was.
As Soviet troops came to Prague in May 1945, Augustin Voloshin was kidnapped by KGB officers to Soviet Russia. He died in July 1945 in the communist prison of Butirki in Moscow, the same fate as many other people kidnapped from Czechoslovakia by Soviet secret service.
Further Reading
Tomes, Josef. Biograficky Slovnik Vol. III.