Background
Samson, Vilis was born in 1920.
Samson, Vilis was born in 1920.
Graduated from the Academy of Social Sciences of the Central.
Organized communist partisan detachments in German-occupied Latvia, 1942. Joined the Bolshevik Party, 1943. After World War II, taught Marxism at the Latvian Communist Party School.
Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1949. Minister of Education of the Latvian SSR, and Secretary of the Presidium of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Chairman of the Scientific Editing Committee of Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias in Latvia, 1969.