Photo: Czech National Film Archive
Czechs are paying tribute to Milada Horáková, politician and freedom fighter who was sent to the gallows by the communist regime on June 27, 1950. She was executed together with three close associates after a show trial that mirrored the brutal tactics of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union.
“My actions were conscious and deliberate, and I wish to take full and complete responsibility for them.
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