Vilis Lācis

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Birth Date:: 12.05.1904
Death date:: 06.02.1966
Length of life:: 61
Days since birth:: 44045
Years since birth:: 120
Days since death:: 21496
Years since death:: 58
Extra names:: Vilis Lācis, Vilis Lācis, Jānis Vilhelms Lāce, Jahn Wilhelm Lahze, Вилис Матисович Лацис, Вилис Лацис, Вилис Тенисович Лацис
Categories:: Communist, Laureate of state prize, Member of Parliament, Member of the Government, Minister, Repression organizer, supporter, Statesman, Writer
Nationality:: latvian
Cemetery:: Cimetière de la Forêt (Riga)

Vilis Lācis (May 12, 1904 – February 6, 1966) was a Latvian writer and communist politician.

Lācis was born into a working-class family in Mangali, near Riga. He was a manual labourer, mostly working in the port of Riga and writing in his free time. In 1933, he published his hugely successful novel Zvejnieka dēls (Fisherman's Son), making him one of the most popular and commercially successful Latvian writers of the 1930s. His novels have been characterized as popular fiction, not always liked by high-brow critics, but widely read by ordinary readers.

Throughout this period, Lācis maintained underground ties to the officially banned Communist Party of Latvia. Lācis was under periodic surveillance by the Latvian secret services due to his political activities. Eventually Lācis became a favorite of Latvian dictator Karlis Ulmanis, who personally ordered the destruction of the surveillance files on Lācis. Lācis wrote newspaper editorials highly favorable of the Ulmanis regime, while still remaining a Communist supporter, and Ulmanis's government generously funded Lācis's writing and a film adaptation of Fisherman's Son.

After Latvia was incorporated in the USSR in August 1940, Lācis became Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR (nominally, Prime Minister)and served in this position from 1940 to 1959. He was regarded mostly as a figurehead, as most of the actual decisions were made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. As first Minister of the Interior and then Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, he must take personal responsibility for the Stalinist deportations and other aspects of the police state, and signed orders for the arrest and deportation of over 40,000 people.

Lācis's books have been translated into more than 50 languages, with translations into Russian being the most numerous. He remains the most translated Latvian writer.

Source: wikipedia.org, news.lv

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	Relation name	Relation type	Birth Date	Death date
1	Tenis Lācis	Father	03.10.1871	04.06.1957
2	Karlīne Lāce	Mother	00.00.1884	12.04.1963
3	Zigurds Lācis	Son	00.00.1928	00.00.1988
4	Edvīns Lācis	Son	11.08.1944	03.03.2004
5	Leonīds Lācis	Son	07.10.1945	00.00.1998
6	Ojārs Lācis	Son	30.04.1932	03.10.1940
7	Milda Lāce	Sister	00.00.1909	21.07.1983
8	Marija Lāce	Wife	09.10.1905	06.02.1959
9	Velta Lāce	Wife	18.07.1918	00.00.2006
10	Miķelis Bute	Father in-law	00.00.1875	26.08.1946
11	Otīlija Bute	Mother in-law	00.00.1883	00.00.1960
12	Elza Kalpiņa	Mother in-law	13.09.1890	03.03.1955
13	Ligita Gaubšteina	Daughter in-law	00.05.1932	30.07.1994
14	Eduards Silmanis	Brother in-law	00.00.1893	00.00.1944
15	Mārtiņš Bute	Brother in-law	17.12.1904	19.09.1970
16	Voldemārs Kalpiņš	Brother in-law	19.02.1916	11.02.1995
17	Elmārs Briedis	Cousin	14.02.1908	26.06.1992
18	Pēteris Briedis	Cousin, Idea mate	28.03.1905	20.12.1982
19	Jānis Kalnbērziņš	Coworker, Employer	17.09.1893	04.02.1986
20	Bruno Kalniņš	Coworker	07.05.1899	26.03.1990
21	Pēteris Blaus	Coworker, Idea mate	23.08.1900	06.01.1971
22	Pauls Lejiņš	Coworker	26.02.1883	27.03.1959
23	Jānis Sudrabkalns	Coworker	17.05.1894	04.09.1975
24	Andrejs Upits	Coworker	04.12.1877	17.11.1970
25	Pēteris Valeskalns	Coworker	06.08.1899	08.12.1987
26	Augusts Eglītis	Coworker	00.00.1896	10.09.1966
27	Augusts Kirchensteins	Coworker	18.09.1872	03.11.1963
28	Justas Paleckis	Coworker	22.01.1899	26.01.1980
29	Ivans Zujāns	Coworker	11.12.1910	01.01.1975
30	Jūlijs Lācis	Coworker	25.12.1892	15.12.1941
31	Mirdza Ķempe	Coworker	09.02.1907	12.04.1974
32	Rasma Garne	Coworker	26.03.1941	09.10.2024
33	Vikentijs Latkovskis	Coworker	20.06.1899	05.11.1983
34	Fricis Deglavs	Coworker	27.05.1898	18.09.1957
35	Žanis Spure	Coworker, Partymate	23.09.1901	23.05.1943
36	Jānis Niedre	Coworker	24.05.1909	08.12.1987
37	Irma Jaunzeme	Familiar	27.09.1897	17.04.1975
38	Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis	Familiar	23.08.1877	20.09.1942
39	Andrejs Višinskis	Familiar	10.12.1883	22.11.1954
40	Vilis Jānis Lapenieks	Familiar	08.10.1908	30.01.1983
41	Mihails Vetrovs	Familiar	14.11.1909	08.08.1980
42	Eduards Berklavs	Familiar, Employee	15.06.1914	25.11.2004
43	Staņislavs Belkovskis	Familiar	13.11.1902	23.06.1941
44	Vilis Samsons	Familiar	03.12.1920	17.09.2011
45	Voldemārs Valdmanis	Familiar	16.09.1905	11.12.1966
46	Ivans Bagramjans	Familiar	02.12.1897	21.09.1982
47	Emīlija Benjamiņa	Employer	10.09.1881	22.09.1941
48	Antons Juhņevičs	Opponent	08.10.1905	14.02.1947
49	Tālrīts Krastiņš	Opponent	08.05.1924	03.09.2008
50	Pauls Dzērve	Opponent	03.09.1918	21.12.1961
51	Ida Ingrīda Sokolova	Idol	10.08.1923	27.10.2012
52	Jānis Bērziņš	Commander	13.11.1889	29.07.1938
53	Kornēlijs Veidnieks	Predecessor	30.03.1899	12.01.1942
54	Jānis Peive	Successor	03.08.1906	13.09.1976

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