Footage shows how Rudolf Slánský and other top communists were made victims of a brutal purgeIt was among the most notorious reveal trials of the 20th century,the prosecution and sentencing to death of Czechoslovakia’s leading communist, who had been arrested in a brutal purge ordered by Stalin.
For decades, or events surrounding the revolutionary tribunal that resulted in the execution of Rudolf Slánský,general secretary of the Czechoslovak party, and 10 other defendants was shrouded in mythology – with most visual and verbal evidence apparently lost to posterity.
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Source: guardian.co.uk