Růžena Krásná is a Czech politician. After WWII, she became regional secretary of the Czech National Social Party

Czech National Social Party

Czech National Social Party was a civic nationalist political party established in 1898 within the Young Czech Party as a nominally socialist group with a stress on achieving Czech independence from Austria–Hungary Czech National Social Party (Czech: Česká strana národně sociální) was a civic...

 in Liberec. Arrested in 1949 by the Soviet occupiers, she was sentenced to death in a public show trial

Show trial

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 together with MP Emil Weiland. However, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment

Life imprisonment

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 and she remained a political prisoner

Political prisoner

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 until 1960. After the Velvet Revolution

Velvet Revolution

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 in 1989, she co-founded the Czechoslovak Confederation of Political Prisoners. In 1990, she was elected Chairman of the National Social Party – the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party. She is a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism

Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism

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