Posted on 06/27/2023 7:47:10 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1950, Milada Horakova was hanged with three others in Prague’s Pankrac Prison as a spy and traitor to the Communist Czechoslovakian government.
Not (yet) as internationally recognizable as Rudolf Slansky,* the Communist General Secretary in Horakova’s time who would run afoul of Stalin and die on the same gallows two years later, Horakova (English Wikipedia page | Czech | the detailed French) is a potent symbol domestically of her country’s Cold War nightmare.
Lawyer, social democrat, and a prominent feminist in the interwar and postwar periods — her life’s work, rather overshadowed by an end that was memorable for different reasons — Horakova survived Nazi imprisonment and was a member of parliament when the Communists seized power in 1948.
She spurned counsel to flee the country, and found herself the headline attraction at a show trial for a supposed plot to overthrow the government. In a hopeless scenario, she distinguished herself with off-script defiance despite having broken under torture and signed a confession; Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and Eleanor Roosevelt all pleaded in vain for clemency....
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No one greasier than a Soviet Communist - unless we're talking about Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer.
It was good to read that the state prosecutor went to prison when she was 86 and served two years.
I was reading about the related Slánský trial recently. Among other things, these trials were influential in persuading leading U.S. Nazis such as Frances Parker Yockey that they should ally with the Soviets against the U.S.
Schumer and Pelosi, and Obama are the leaders. Schiff and Joe Biden are the lackey’s.
Bammy is Pelosi’s shine boy.
They should be in jail.
Susan Rice and Val Jarrett too. I can visualize a gallows big enough for all of them.
Sounds like I am going to have to read up on that, neither name is ringing a bell with me.
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