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{{Short description|Swedish politician (1917–2016)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name              = C.-H. Hermansson
| honorific-suffix  = [[Member of the Riksdag|SKP]]
| image             = CH Hermansson.jpg
| imagesize         = 220px
| caption           = C.-H. Hermansson at a [[Young Left (Sweden)|Young Left]] convention in May 2003
| office            = [[Left Party (Sweden)|Leader of the Left Party Communists]]
| term_start        = 1964
| term_end          = 1975
| predecessor       = [[Hilding Hagberg]]
| successor         = [[Lars Werner]]
| parliament2       = Swedish
| term_start2       = 1963
| term_end2         = 1985
| constituency_MP2  = [[Stockholm Municipality (Riksdag constituency)|Stockholm Municipality]]
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|df=y|1917|12|14}}
| birth_place       = [[Bollnäs]], [[Sweden]]
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2016|07|26|1917|12|14|df=y}}
| death_place       = [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]
| profession        = [[Politician]]
| party             = [[Left Party (Sweden)|Left Party Communists]]
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| website           =
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'''Carl-Henrik''' "'''C.-H.'''" '''Hermansson''' (14 December 1917 – 26 July 2016)<ref name="dn2">{{cite news|url=http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/ch-hermansson-har-avlidit/ |title=CH Hermansson har avlidit |work=[[Dagens Nyheter]] |date=27 July 2016 |language=sv}}</ref> was a Swedish politician who served as chairman of the [[Left Party (Sweden)|Communist Party of Sweden]] (during his leadership renamed ''the Left Party – Communists'') from 1964 to 1975 and member of [[Riksdag|parliament]] from 1963 to 1985. He was a major force in redirecting Left Party policies away from [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Moscow loyalism]] towards [[Eurocommunism]] and [[Popular Socialism|Scandinavian Popular Socialism]].<ref name="ne">{{cite encyclopedia|title=C H Hermansson |encyclopedia=[[Nationalencyklopedin]] |language=Swedish |location=Malmö |publisher=NE Nationalencyclopedin AB}}</ref> He wrote several books regarding [[capitalism]] and the owners of the large [[corporation]]s, as well as on [[communists]] and the policies of the left.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
At the time of [[Joseph Stalin]]'s death in 1953, Hermansson praised Stalin as a brilliant scientist and a great leader. He subsequently regretted this and referred to his own words about Stalin as reprehensible.<ref name="dn1">{{cite news|url=http://www.dn.se/nyheter/politik/han-sa-hogt-vad-manga-partiledare-mumlat-tyst/ |last=Eriksson |first=Karin |title="Han sa högt vad många partiledare mumlat tyst" |date=27 July 2016 |language=sv}}</ref>
==References==
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==Further reading==
* Schmidt, W. 2005. ''C.H. Hermansson: En politisk biografi''. Stockholm: Leopard förlag.
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