Bhagat Singh vs Luis Carlos Prestes

Bhagat Singh and his associates killed British police officer John Saunders in Lahore, mistaking him for James Scott, who had ordered the lathi charge that killed Lala Lajpat Rai. This act of revenge escalated the revolutionary movement.

Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi to protest the Public Safety Bill and Trade Disputes Act. They were arrested and used the trial to propagate revolutionary ideas.

Bhagat Singh and fellow prisoners went on a 116-day hunger strike in Lahore jail demanding better treatment for political prisoners. The strike drew national attention and forced the British to make concessions.

Bhagat Singh was executed by hanging at Lahore jail at age 23, along with Rajguru and Sukhdev. His execution sparked widespread protests and made him a martyr for the Indian independence movement.

Prestes commanded a rebel column that marched over 25,000 km through Brazil's interior from 1925 to 1927, protesting the oligarchic republic. The column evaded government forces but failed to spark a popular uprising, becoming a symbol of resistance.

Prestes formally joined the PCB after years of exile in the Soviet Union. He became the party's leading figure, advocating for a Marxist-Leninist revolution in Brazil.

Prestes directed an attempted communist uprising in Brazilian army barracks in Natal, Recife, and Rio de Janeiro. The revolt was quickly crushed by government forces, leading to Prestes' arrest and imprisonment for nine years.

After the failed 1935 uprising, Prestes was arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was held in solitary confinement for much of his sentence, becoming a symbol of communist martyrdom.

Prestes was released under the amnesty of the democratization process at the end of the Vargas dictatorship. He returned to lead the PCB, which was briefly legalized, and was elected senator in 1945.

Prestes was expelled from the PCB for criticizing the party's moderate, Eurocommunist turn. He spent his final years in relative isolation, maintaining a hardline Stalinist stance.