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Rudolf Slánský

1901 - 1952

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Rudolf Slánský (31 July 1901 – 3 December 1952) was a leading Czech Communist politician. Holding the post of the party's General Secretary after World War II, he was one of the leading creators and organizers of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. After the split between Josip Broz Tito and Joseph Stalin, the latter instigated a wave of "purges" of the respective Communist Party leaderships, to prevent more splits between the Soviet Union and its Central European "satellite" countries. In Czechoslovakia, Slánský was one of 14 leaders arrested in 1951, tortured into confessing their "crimes", and put on show trial en masse in November 1952, charged with high treason. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Slánský is the 4,140th most popular politician (down from 4,004th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 129th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Czech Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rudolf Slánský ranks 4,140 out of 19,576. Before him are Ahmadou Ahidjo, Gitanas Nausėda, Sancho III of Castile, Robert Peel, Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, and Emperor Yuan of Han. After him are Venustiano Carranza, Antiochus XIII Asiaticus, Afonso I of Kongo, David Dacko, Judah ha-Nasi, and Princess Irene of the Netherlands.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Rudolf Slánský ranks 62. Before him are Louis Kahn, Luis Monti, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Manly P. Hall, Mildred Harris, and Stefan Wyszyński. After him are Erhard Heiden, Paul Lazarsfeld, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Raimundo Orsi, Tage Erlander, and Alice Prin. Among people deceased in 1952, Rudolf Slánský ranks 30. Before him are George Santayana, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Charles Scott Sherrington, Hattie McDaniel, Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, and Sveinn Björnsson. After him are Charles Lightoller, Bedřich Hrozný, Heinrich von Vietinghoff, Pedro Lascuráin, Jack Parsons, and Efim Bogoljubov.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Rudolf Slánský ranks 137 out of 1,200. Before him are Anton Reicha (1770), Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), Alfred Brendel (1931), Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (932), Stanislav Grof (1931), and Adalbert Stifter (1805). After him are Eduard Hanslick (1825), G. W. Pabst (1885), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), Alfred Kubin (1877), Franz Benda (1709), and Michael Czerny (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Rudolf Slánský ranks 41. Before him are Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (915), Elizabeth of Görlitz (1390), Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia (852), Mojmir I of Moravia (795), Vratislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (888), and Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (932). After him are Antonín Zápotocký (1884), Prince Ernst of Hohenberg (1904), Wenceslaus I, Duke of Luxembourg (1337), Karl I, Prince of Liechtenstein (1569), Jarmila Kratochvílová (1951), and František Palacký (1798).

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