>Thälmann played a major role during the political instability of the Weimar Republic, especially in its final years, when the KPD explicitly sought to overthrow the liberal democracy of the republic.

>Under his leadership the KPD became intimately associated with the government of the Soviet Union and the policies of Joseph Stalin, and from 1928 the party was largely controlled and funded by Stalin's government

>for political reasons, Stalin did not seek his release when he entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Germany
>despite Thälmann's loyalty to Stalin during his time leading the KPD Moscow pragmatically removed a slogan for the 1939 International Youth Day which read in part, "Long live Comrade Thälmann!" and replaced it with, "Long live the wise foreign policy of the Soviet Union, guided by Comrade Stalin's instructions

>Many of Thälmann's closest associates who had emigrated to the Soviet Union were executed during the Great Purge of the 1930s

>Thälmann was shot on Adolf Hitler's personal orders in Buchenwald in 1944

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