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I shall always be with you

The night before her execution, Czech politician Milada Horáková writes to her daughter

Shaun Usher
Nov 3, 2022
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Milada Horáková. (Photo: Wikimedia.)

On 8 June 1950, nine months after being arrested by the Czech secret police on suspicion of leading a plot to overthrow the Communist regime, forty-eight- year-old socialist politician Milada Horáková was found guilty of ‘high treason’ following a show trial that was broadcast on national radio, and in which she r…

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