Czechoslovakia · event 8 of 12

1952

The Slánský trial. The party’s own general secretary and ten others are hanged after a show trial with an explicit antisemitic character. Their ashes are scattered on an icy road outside Prague.

The Czechoslovakia era

  1. 28 October 1918
  2. 30 September 1938
  3. 15 March 1939
  4. 1941
  5. 27 May 1942
  6. 5 May 1945
  7. 25 February 1948
  8. 1952
  9. 1 May 1955
  10. 21 August 1968
  11. 16 January 1969
  12. 1 January 1977

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