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To the Memory of the Victims of the Political Trials Issue number
247
Date of issue
09.10.2001
Face value
10.00 Sk
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0.17 €

Shortly after the World War II, after the communists took power during the February coup, there was a mass arrest of people considered as enemies of the peoples' democratic system by the new regime in the then Czechoslovak Republic. From Slovakia, 27,000 persons were sentenced by the National Court to death or received life and long-term sentences during manipulated political trials in the years 1948 - 1952. More than 70,000 persons received sentences by other courts until 1989 and suffered in hard prisons and forced labour camps. The investigators often used torture and many died due to cruel treatment. The political...

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