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had thrown its weight behind a moderate group called the Czech
Democrats and rejected the chance to work with a Slovak separatist with a collaborationist background. Philby did however manage to secure entry into Canada on a British visa in December 1950 for Ďurčanský and he made the country his base
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claiming that he was granted a visa as 'membership in or affiliation with the defunct Nazi Party in itself no longer constitutes a ground of ineligibility.' His work against the
Czechoslovak communist regime included spells as President of both the Slovak Committee for Action Abroad and the
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Czechoslovak charges that he had been paid by the Nazi secret service and had been complicit in the deaths of Jews. Condemned to death
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in 1939 and 1940. He was known for spreading virulent antisemitic propaganda, although he left the government before the
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of operations for the next few years and visited the country regularly on speaking engagements into the 1970s.
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was fully implemented. After the war, he joined the
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