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Catalogue description Richard SLANSKY / Waltraut SLANSKY: Czechoslovak. A leading Czech communist in the...
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| Reference: | KV 2/2041 |
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| Description: |
Richard SLANSKY / Waltraut SLANSKY: Czechoslovak. A leading Czech communist in the 1930s, Richard SLANSKY and his wife came to Britain in 1939 as refugees. Traute SLANSKY was the widow of Max HOELZ, a German communist leader in the 1920s. Both Slanskys had Comintern links. Having returned to Prague, SLANSKY was appointed Czech Ambassador to Iran in 1948, only to be declared persona non grata the following year. Richard was brother to Rudolf SLANSKY, Secretary General of the Czech Communist Party who in 1951 was put on trial in Prague and later executed as a spy. Richard was imprisoned for life in 1953 for treason against the Czech state |
| Note: | Two photographs at front of Volume 2 |
| Date: | 1949 Jan 01 - 1953 Dec 31 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PF 46563 VOL 2 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Retained Until 2005 |
| Record opening date: | 23 June 2005 |
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