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Augusts Voss
Augusts Voss was a Soviet Latvian politician who served as first secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia from 1966 to 1984. Raised in Russia, he followed the line of his predecessor Arvīds Pelše, promoting industrial growth and the use of Russian. In 1984 he became chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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