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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...