What is Rudolf Slánský?
[[File:Slánský - Rudé právo - 19.11.1948.jpg|thumb|Rudolf Slánský]] '''Rudolf Slánský''' (31 July 1901 &ndash; 3 December 1952) was a [[Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovak]] [[Communist]] [[politician]].<ref name=rssYD>{{cite web |url=http://biography.yourdictionary.com/rudolf-salzmann-slansky |title=Rudolf Salzmann Slánský Facts |website=Your Dictionary |publisher=LoveToKnow, Corp |access-date=January 15, 2017 |archive-date=September 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919121230/http://biography.yourdictionary.com/rudolf-salzmann-slansky |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a longtime [[member]] of the [[Central Committee]] of the Communist Party. Later he was the [[General Secretary]] of the CPC Central Committee (1945-1951). Slánský was one of the main [[organize]]rs of the [[1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état]].<ref name=rssYD/> During [[World War II]] he was a member of Czechoslovak exile resistance in the foreign centre in [[Moscow]]. Slánský was [[executed]] on December 3, 1952 at [[Prague]]’s Pankrac Prison.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/12/03/1952-rudolf-slansky-and-10-conspirators/ |title=1952: Rudolf Slansky and 10 “conspirators” |publisher=ExecutedToday.com |access-date=January 15, 2017 |archive-date=July 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703123200/http://www.executedtoday.com/2007/12/03/1952-rudolf-slansky-and-10-conspirators/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> == Early years == Slánský was born on July 31, 1901 in Nezvěstice near [[Plzeň|Pilsen]], [[Bohemia]].<ref name=rssYD/> His father was a [[Jewish]] [[merchant]].<ref name=Burns>{{cite web |url=https://www.private-prague-guide.com/article/rudolf-slansky-and-the-slansky-trial/ |title=Rudolf Slansky and the Slansky Trial |author=Tracy A. Burns |website=Private Prague Guide |publisher=Custom Travel Services s.r.o. (Ltd) |access-date=January 15, 2017}}</ref> He [[wikt:studied|studied]] at a public [[academy]] in [[Plzeň]]. Slánský joined the Czechoslovak Communist Party in 1921, three years after it was formed.