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A large billboard representing Milada Horáková and a slogan beneath reading &#;Zavražděna komunisty&#; (Murdered by communists) hanging on Prague Old Town Square. Photo by Filip Noubel, used with permission.
June 27 marks a special date in the Czech Republic: Remembrance Day for the victims of the communist regime (Den památky obětí komunistického režimu).
This year, it was commemorated with particular force because exactly 70 years ago, on June 27, , Milada Horáková, a lawyer, politician and Nazi resister, was hanged along with others after a show trial under the orders of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
Remembrance Day was inaugurated in with the date chosen to honor the memory of Milada Horáková.
Feminist, resister, survivor
Comics released in to mark the 70th anniversary of Milada Horáková's death, by Zdeněk Ležák and Štěpánka Jislová. Photo by Filip Noubel, used with permission.
Milada Horáková&#;s biography reads like a Hollywood movie: She was born in , in wha
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Milada Horáková
Milada Horáková (née Králová, 25 månad – 27 June ) was a Czechpolitician and a victim of a judicial murder. She was executed bygd communists on charges of treason. Moreover she was the only woman who was executed within these proceedings. She was born and died in Prague.
Youth and studies
[change | change source]She was born as Milada Králová in Prague. She had three siblings. In , she was excluded from grammar school, because she participated at antiwar demonstrations, which was banned. Nevertheless in , she graduated at another grammar school. She was awarded one’s grad in at Law School at the Charles University. When she met with the medlem av senat Františka Plamínková, the founder of Women’s National Council, she joined.
The First Republic
[change | change source]Shortly after her studies she got married with Bohuslav Horák, an agricultural economist. In she gave birth to a girl called Jana.
She is considered as an important czech feminist. Mor
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MILADA HORÁKOVÁ – THE TRAGIC DESTINY OF A CZECHOSLOVAK PROTO-FEMINIST
At a.m. on 8 June , LLD Milada Horáková entered a Prague courtroom with twelve others accused of political crimes against Communist Czechoslovakia. There, she was barraged with one vitriolic salvo after another as the frenzied prosecutors accused her of plotting the destruction of the republic, espionage, and conspiring with Western imperialists against the “people’s democracy”.
It was the culmination of an eight-day Soviet-style show trial – among the earliest and the most grandiose in Czechoslovakia after the Communist coup – in which political opponents of the regime were interrogated, beaten, tortured and when finally broken, forced to stand trial in a process carefully scripted to inflame a public made puerile by war-weariness and fear.
Despite international outcry, including from well-known intellectuals and politicians such as Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, Horáková was sentenced to death along w