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Friday marked 75 years since the execution of lawyer and politician Milada Horáková, who made an indelible mark on the country's history for her courage in the fight against the communist regime. The trial, in the language of the time, for leading a subversive conspiracy against the republic with Dr. Milada Horáková's group, took place from May 31 to June 8, 1950, and ended with four death sentences and nine prison sentences.
The future of democracy requires that new generations find in personalities such as Horáková an example to follow, both to confront authoritarianism and to actively sympathize with its victims. Read more
Going to the memorial service for Milada Horáková on Bratislava's Jakubovo Square, I realized that her fate is more than just a memory. It is a warning.
In several places in Prague, the public and politicians honored the memory of Milada Horáková, a lawyer and politician executed in a communist-fabricated political trial in 1950.
The only woman to be convicted and murdered by the communists in Czechoslovakia in a political trial was Milada Horáková. The lawyer, National Socialist MP and women's rights activist was hanged on the morning of June 27, 1950, after a fabricated trial. The anniversary of Milada Horáková's death is commemorated as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Communist Regime.
Don't cry, don't miss it too much - it's better for me this way than dying slowly. My heart wouldn't be able to stand a long period of deprivation. This way I'll fly away again to the fields and meadows, the hillsides and the ponds, to the mountains and the lowlands. I'll be unfettered again, and that peace and quiet. Give it to me, there was so much that had to be overcome - I want to go.... I see myself anew in the world again... I feel you st…
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