Rudolf Slansky, a tall, red-haired butcher’s son from a village near Pilsen, was a devoted Communist. A member of the Czech party since he was 18, he made a fine hatchetman—unmoved by compassion, ...
Said Rudolf Slansky, ex-secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, in a tired, mechanical monotone: “I have committed a great crime against the Czechoslovak people, and I therefore face ...
A film purporting to show the courtroom confession of Rudolf Slansky, secretary general of the Communist Party and former Vice Premier of Czechoslovakia, who was executed in the anti-Semitic purges of ...