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08-23-2018

Milada Horáková: defender of democracy against totalitarianism in czechoslovakia

On the 23rd of August, the City of Buenos Aires observes the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarianism. The life of Czech activist Milada Horáková is emblematic of the fight against various forms of totalitarianism. Horáková, detained by the Nazis in a concentration camp and later executed by communists in Czechoslovakia, was posthumously awarded the honor of the First Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk by Czech president Václav Havel in 1991. It is the Czech government’s highest recognition of citizens who have dedicated their lives to democratic and humanitarian causes. Horáková’s story was recently highlighted in «Milada», a 2017 Czech-American film distributed by Netflix.
By Greg Ross
 

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Greg Ross
Greg Ross
Graduate student at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is a Research Assistant for the Argentina Project at the Wilson Center in Washington DC and a former Fulbright scholar in Paraguay and former intern at CADAL. He graduated from Chicago University in 2018.
 
 
 

 
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