1952 in Czechoslovakia - Slansky Trial, Czechoslovakia at the 1952 Summer Olympics, Czechoslovakia at the 1952 Winter Olympics (Paperback)

Chapters: Slansky Trial, Czechoslovakia at the 1952 Summer Olympics, Czechoslovakia at the 1952 Winter Olympics. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Slansky trial (officially Proces s protistatnim spikleneckym centrem Rudolfa Slanskeho meaning "Trial of anti-state conspiracy centered around Rudolf Slansky") was a show trial against elements of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KS) who were thought to have adopted the line of the maverick Yugoslav leader Josip Tito. On November 20, 1952, Rudolf Slansky, General Secretary of the KS, and 13 other Communist leaders or bureaucrats, 11 of them Jews, were accused of participating in a Trotskyite-Titoite-Zionist conspiracy and convicted: 11 were executed and 3 sentenced to life imprisonment.The state prosecutor was Josef Urvalek. The trial was the result of a split within the Communist leadership on the degree to which the state should emulate the Soviet Union, and was part of a Stalin-inspired purge of "disloyal" elements in the national Communist parties in Central Europe, as well as an antisemitic purge of Jews from the leadership of Communist parties. Klement Gottwald, president of Czechoslovakia and leader of the Communist Party, feared being purged, and decided to sacrifice Slansky, a long term collaborator and personal friend who was the second-in-command of the party. The others were picked to convey a clear threat to different groups in the state bureaucracy. A couple of them (vab, Reicin) were brutal sadists conveniently added for a more realistic show. The trial was orchestrated (and the subsequent terror staged in Czechoslovakia) on the order of Moscow leadership by Soviet advisors, who ironically were invited by Rudolf Slansky and Klement Gottwald, with the help of the Czechoslovak St...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=42830