Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body was carried back to Masaryk's apartment, with Dr. Teply following. As he passed into the building, a black automobile drew up; out stepped Vaclav Nosek, Himmler of the Red Czech regime, and Dr. Vladimir Clementis, Deputy Foreign Minister (later arrested as a Western agent). They hurried into an elevator and got to Masaryk's apartment before Teply...
...Ousted Czech Vice Premier Rudolf Slansky is still awaiting trial in Prague for crimes vaguely described as "activities against the state." Last week a clearer picture of the crimes, and of a growing Communist crusade, emerged from a speech made by Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky. The speech, an appeal to national pride which might have stemmed from Adolf Hitler, was a bitter attack on "Jewish capitalism" and "interference from Jerusalem." Slansky, like several of the victims of Czechoslovakia's current party purge, is a Jew. Therefore, he is, in the favorite word the Commies use to denounce Jews...
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, unhampered by principle, unburdened with personal loyalties. Unlike so many Czech politicos who fled to London in World War II, he went to Moscow. There he lived for six years in a special compound reserved for the elite among foreign Communists. He became a better Muscovite than a Czech, which made him a fine teammate for another graduate of the special compound, Klement...
...Holy Truth. Czechoslovakia, with a higher standard of living than Russia's, is the Kremlin's prize capture. But even the Czech economy sagged under Moscow's insatiable demands for Czech machinery and industrial products. Looking around for higher & higher scapegoats, Slansky clapped into jail Gottwald's good friend, Foreign Minister Vladimir dementis and Slansky's own good friend Madame Marie Svermova, widow of a Czech Communist hero...
...History Unveiled. Then the script changed. Slansky did not disappear. He was "promoted" to Vice Premier and given control of all Czech economic affairs. He continued to get a big play in the Czech press. On his soth birthday last July 30, he got the Order of Socialism from Gottwald. Only last month the government unveiled with a flourish Slansky's two-volume history of Communism...