Communism kills: Execution of Milada Horáková.

June 27, 1950, in Czechoslovakia is executed at 49 years the defender of women, lifeguard, parliamentarian, lawyer and mother Milada Horáková.

Milada started in politics at an early age, in 1929 she was a member of the Czech National Socialist Party, during the Second World War she was sent to a concentration camp by the National Socialist regime.

After the war returns to Prague with her husband in May 1945. After the "t" in which the Communists take the power of parliament, Milada resigns in protest, also refuses to be bribed, help persecuted politicians to escape the country and rejects the idea of ​​exile.

This defiant attitude of Milada soon alarmed the communist government that imprisoned her for 3 years, led to a controlled trial in which she defended herself saying: "Nobody in this country should die for their ideas."

However, although personalities such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein wrote letters to the president to annul the death penalty, Milada was executed in 1950.
Not even the Nazis dared to much.

From different parties and political organizations there is a lot of talk about reinvidicar feminine figures, why Milada is out? Perhaps it was not a great challenge to go to college at that time as a woman? was not very brave facing the Nazis and the Communists? she put first the freedom of her country before her family life and that has no value? Well, I think it is not enough for some because they flirt with regimes that even today continue to denigrate the rights of women, and of course because remembering Milada is equivalent to remembering all the atrocities committed under the USSR.

It is a tragedy that we still have to remind many of the deaths by starvation, persecution, torture and murder committed by their leaders in the name of communism. In total we would be talking about 262,082 deaths from 1948 to 1968 between the arranged trials, the purges and the repression of the First of Prague,

It would be unfortunate that the name of Milada as well as that of many others who have given their lives defending freedom is forgotten, that is why I want to tell you about the initiative "I'm going with my head up", a campaign that began on Friday, the 21st. June and that will culminate on June 27 when the Kampa Museum is lit in sunless number of lights to commemorate the day of remembrance of the victims of the communist regime proclaimed in the Czech Republic in 2004.

I hope someday we can learn from the mistakes we have made in the past, teach them to new generations and maybe we can live without fear of totalitarianism.