Former Czech diplomat Rudolf Slánský dies
Prague- Former Czech diplomat Rudolf Slánský, whose father was sentenced to death in a framed-up communist trial in the 1950s, died as a consequence of a serious disease aged 71 today, family friend Pavel Rychetský, Constitutional Court chairman, announced.

This article summarizes some very important events in Czech post-war history in which the name Slánský plays a prominently grim role.