Question: Facts: - death place: prague , czechoslovakia - known for: general secretary of the czechoslovakian communist party - death date: 03 december 1952 - birth date: 31 july 1901 - name: rudolf slansky - nationality: czechoslovakia - image: slansky.jpg - birth place: nezvestice , austria-hungary - occupation: politician Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of rudolf slansky .
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rudolf slansky -lrb- 31 july 1901 -- 3 december 1952 -rrb- was a czech communist politician .holding the post of the party 's general secretary after world war ii , he was one of the leading creators and organizers of communist rule in czechoslovakia .after the split between josip broz tito of yugoslavia and soviet premier joseph stalin , the latter instigated a wave of '' purges '' of the respective communist party leaderships , to prevent more splits between the soviet union and its central european '' satellite '' countries .in czechoslovakia , slansky was one of 14 leaders arrested in 1951 and put on show trial '' en masse '' in november 1952 , charged with high treason .after eight days , 11 of the 14 were sentenced to death .slansky 's sentence was carried out five days later .