Word: hornbeam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czechoslovak Supreme Court and the man in charge of reviewing the trials of the Stalinist purge victims of the 1950s, apparently took his own life after learning of a newspaper article denouncing his role in a rigged trial during that decade. His body was found hanging from a hornbeam tree in the woods south of Prague, an empty bottle of cheap wine at his feet. On an island in the Vltava River, more than 3,000 people imprisoned and tortured when the Communists first came to power met to praise Dubček and unfurl a white banner that read...
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