ПРОЦЕС РУДОЛФУ СЛАНСКОМ - ЈУГОСЛОВЕНСКИ ПОГЛЕД -
PROCEEDINGS TO RUDOLF SLANSKI - YUGOSLAV REVIEW -

Summary/Abstract: Proceedings to Rudolf Slanski, ex secretary general of Communist party of Czechoslovakia, and thirteen more state and party officials was held in November of 1952 in the jail Pankrac in Czechoslovakia. This rigged political proceedings, similar by its analogy to a number of trials that had been conducted in the countries of soviet faction, apart from undoubtedly important external policy dimension, had primarily inner policy causes and consequences. Essentially, it was all about a struggle for power between two groups of communist leaders who, having taken the complete power in the country in 1948, began to gather around two leaders. These two men were Rudolf Slanski, secretary general of Central Committee of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and Klement Gotvald, President of the Republic and „historic leader” of the party. Prague trial was also marked by a peculiarity that had not existed in other trials - a very prominent anti-semitic feature primarily due to the circumstances that fourteen of the accused were Jews, including Slanski. The fact that these circumstances were emphasized by the organizers of the trial as an important component of the whole case, provoked tumultuous and bitter reactions of the Jewish organizations from all around the World and especially of the newly found state of Israel. In numerous comments of that time, anti-semitic character of the Prague trial was connected with the creation of the long lasting external policy orientation of Moscow aimed at the support of Arabic countries in the conflict with Israel. A segment regarded the connection between Yugoslavia and this trial was especially analyzed in the work.

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