Slánský, Rudolf

Slánský, Rudolf

▪ Czech communist leader
born July 31, 1901, Nezvěstice, near Plzeň, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]
died December 3, 1952, Prague, Czechoslovakia

      Czech Communist leader who was the central victim in the November 1952 “Slánský trial.”

      Of Jewish descent, Slánský joined the Communist Party in 1921 and became editor of the party organ, Rudé Právo, in 1924. He became regional party secretary in Ostrava in 1927 and a member of the Central Committee of the party in 1929. In 1935 he was elected to the Czechoslovak National Assembly. He was prominent in the Czechoslovak Communist leadership in Moscow during World War II when Czechoslovakia was under German occupation. He served on the Ukrainian front and fought with partisans in Slovakia during the uprising of 1944 against the Germans. After the war he was named secretary-general of the party, second only to the leader, Klement Gottwald. He had a major role in the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in February 1948, becoming a vice premier.

      In 1949 Slánský was active in the reorganization of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. During 1951, however, his own political position deteriorated. In September 1951 he was removed from his secretariat, and in November he was arrested. Under strong psychological and physical pressure, he confessed to the charges that had been prepared against him, among others that he had been a Zionist agent and had engaged in espionage for the West. In November 1952 he and 13 others were tried; 11 of them, including Slánský, were sentenced to death. The Slánský trial was marked by strongly anti-Semitic overtones (most of the condemned were Jews), and the falseness of the charges proved an embarrassment to the party leadership in later years. The Slánský case was later reviewed, and in 1963 he was posthumously absolved of the criminal charges of treason and espionage for which he had been condemned. He was restored to party membership in 1968.

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