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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1901-07-31 ) 31 July 1901, Nezvěstice , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 3 December 1952 (1952-12-03) (aged 51), Prague , Czechoslovakia
- Occupation
- Politician
- Known for
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Rudolf
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of birth
- Nezvěstice
- Place of death
- Prague
- Occupation
- politician
- Political party
- Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
- Languages spoken
- Czech
- Religion
- Judaism
- Image
- Rudolf Slansky (1901 1952).jpg
- Convicted of
- high treason
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- Commons category
- Rudolf Slánský
- date of birth
- 1901-07-31
- date of death
- 1952-12-03
- name in native language
- Rudolf Slánský
- birth name
- Rudolf Salzmann
- penalty
- capital punishment
- cause of death
- hanging to death
- manner of death
- capital punishment
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Encyclopedic overview
Rudolf Slánský (31 July 1901 – 3 December 1952) was a leading Czech Communist politician. Holding the post of the party's General Secretary after World War II, he was one of the leading creators and organizers of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
After the split between Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin, the latter instigated a wave of "purges" of the respective Communist Party leaderships, to prevent more splits between the Soviet Union and its Central European "satellite" countries. In Czechoslovakia, Slánský was one of 14 leaders arrested in 1951, tortured into confessing their "crimes", and put on show trial en masse in November 1952, charged with high treason. After eight days, 11 of the 14 were convicted and sentenced to death. Slánský was executed five days later.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rudolf Slánský” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.