How do you push fourteen men to say the opposite of what they think, to accuse each other of all the evils, so that some of them end up believing it themselves?
Ruth Zylberman's documentary traces the trial of top Czechoslovak communist leaders in 1952, also known as the Slansky trial.
Unpublished images of these false confessions intended to cover the errors of Stalinism constitute the material of this film, visible on December 6 at 10:55 p.m. on Arte.
Antoine Marès, an eminent specialist in the Czech and Slovak countries, sheds light on the origins of this trial,
"which is part of the continuation of the Stalinist trials of the 1930s"
and comes three years after that of Hungarian Laszlo Rajk.
The Soviet inquisition was then at its height.
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LE FIGARO. - What motivated this trial in 1952, four years after the Communists took control of the country?
Antoine MARES.
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It is above all a trial of scapegoats.
When it began to take shape in 1951...
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