Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923), a Czech whose satirical anti-war novel The Good Soldier Švejk and His Fortunes in the World War has been translated into more than 60 languages, was a notorious anarchist and political organizer in Prague. He spent a month in jail for assaulting an officer and he published an anarchist newspaper. In his later life, he shied away from his anarchist leanings and was a member of the Bolshevik Party. At one point, while employed by The Animal Journal, he was fired for writing about imaginary animals as though they were real.

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Jaroslav Hašek

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