November 1952 was the highest point of the purges in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and saw death sentences in the show trial of "Trotskyists-Titoists and bourgeois nationalists". The most famous victim of the purges was Rudolf Slansky (1901-1952), one of the leading creators and organizers of communist rule in Czechoslovakia after World War II. Slansky, with 13 others, was accused of being a Titoist, advocating a non-Russia-centric form of Communism and sentences to death on 27 November 1952, executed in December 1952.
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