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Seventy years after the execution of Rudolf Slánský, a prominent Communist Party member convicted in an infamous 1952 show trial, a court in Prague has rehabilitated his wife and son in memoriam. The court found that they had been illegally deprived of their personal freedom by the communist regime.
Rudolf Slánský, who had been general secretary of the Communist Party and second only to the then president, Klement Gottwald, was convicted along with several others on trumped up conspiracy charges.
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Author: Ruth Fraňková