The name of the Czechoslovakian communist Rudolf Slansky is hardly known outside of the Czech Republic. He was the second man in the state of CSSR and was quite complicit in the elimination of democratic structures. But his high position was of no use to him. Along with a dozen other high-ranking party officials, he was sentenced to death in Prague in a hideous show trial in 1952. Shortly before, Stalin had set the hideous example with his anti-Semitic doctors' conspiracy in the Soviet Union. The Prague communists implemented this in the CSSR with this Slansky tribunal. Almost all of the accused were Jews. And all were innocent. This excellent documentation rightly ensures that this injustice is not forgotten. The methods of torture used to force the accused to publicly admit their guilt are particularly perfidious. The mixture of interviews with contemporary witnesses and real film material that was only recently rediscovered is exciting and informative.
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