Milada Horáková – The Tragic Destiny of a Czechoslovak Proto-Feminist
Milada Horáková – The Tragic Destiny of a Czechoslovak Proto-Feminist

Summary/Abstract: At 8:15 a.m. on 8 June 1950, LLD Milada Horáková entered a Prague courtroom with twelve others accused of political crimes against Communist Czechoslovakia. There, she was barraged with one vitriolic salvo after another as the frenzied prosecutors accused her of plotting the destruction of the republic, espionage, and conspiring with Western imperialists against the “people’s democracy”. It was the culmination of an eight-day Soviet-style show trial – among the earliest and the most grandiose in Czechoslovakia after the 1948 Communist coup – in which political opponents of the regime were interrogated, beaten, tortured and when finally broken, forced to stand trial in a process carefully scripted to inflame a public made puerile by war-weariness and fear.

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