Milada Horakova & 44530 Horakova Asteroid - Prague, Czech Republic
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Dr. Milada Horáková was a Czech politician executed by Communists on charges of conspiracy and treason.
Waymark Code: WMJADK
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 10/19/2013
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She was born as Milada Králová in Prague and then studied law at the Charles University. She graduated in 1926 and then worked at the Prague City Council. In the same year she graduated, she entered the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party, despite the misleading name a strong opponent of the Nazis. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, she joined the underground resistance movement, but was arrested by the Gestapo in 1940. She was initially sentenced to death, but later her punishment was reduced to life imprisonment and Horáková was sent to the concentration camp Terezín and then to various prisons in Germany.
After the liberation in May 1945, she returned to Prague, rejoining her party. She was elected a Member of Parliament, where she remained until the Communist coup in February 1948, when she resigned. Even though she was urged by her friends to leave Czechoslovakia, she remained in the country and was still politically active. On 27 September 1949 she was arrested and eventually accused of being the leader of a supposed plot to overthrow the Communist regime. The StB, a Czechoslovak secret police infamous for brutal interrogation methods, tried to break the group of the alleged plotters and forced them to confess to treason and conspiracy using both physical and psychological torture.
Plaque Inscription
CZ: Zde žila JUDr.Milada Horáková *25.12.1901 †27.6.1950 poslankyne Národního shromáždení, která za svobodu a demokracii položila život. Verni zustaneme. Cs.strana socialistická. Brezen 1992
EN: Here lived Milada Horáková 25.12.1901-27.6.1950, a Member of the National Assembly, she died for freedom and democracy. Faithful forever. Cs. party socialist. March 1992
44530 Horakova Asteroid is a main-belt asteroid.
Discovered by: J. Tichá, M. Tichý
Date of discovery: 25. 12. 1998
Place of discovery: Klet Observatory
Website of the Extraterrestrial Location: [Web Link]
Website of location on Earth: [Web Link]
Celestial Body: Asteroid
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