Slánský trial

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The Slánský trial was a 1952 antisemitic show trial against fourteen members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), including many high-ranking officials. Several charges, including high treason, were announced against the group on the grounds of allegedly participating in a Zionist conspiracy against the Czechoslovak Republic. General Secretary of the KSČ Rudolf Slánský was the alleged leader of conspirators. All fourteen defendants were found guilty. Eleven of them were sentenced to death and executed; the remaining three received life sentences. Eleven of the defendants were "of Jewish origin" and historians have referred to it as a key example of antisemitism in the Soviet Bloc.

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