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This study looks at the life story of poet and Communist Party of Slovakia official, Ladislav Novomeský between 1951 and 1954 when he was systematically investigated in secret police prison. The reason for his political persecution was a fabricated charge of what was termed Slovak bourgeois nationalism, as a result of which he was first stripped of his political function in spring 1950, and then arrested in February 1951. In the so-called “anti-state conspiracy centred around Rudolf Slanský trial” (the Slánsky show trial), Novomeský had to testify against Vladimír Clementis. Following another round of interrogations, he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the so-called Slovak Bourgeois Nationalists Trial (Gustáv Husák and others) in April 1954.
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This study looks at the circumstances of the origin of the campaign against so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalism in spring 1950. It primarily focuses on poet and Communist Party of Slovakia figure, Ladislav Novomeský, who became one of its victims. Ideas of the existence of so-called bourgeois nationalism in Slovakia were an entirely deliberate construction with no basis in reality serving only to justify the Communist Party's immediaet needs for power. The study analyses from many perspectives the (ir)relevant arguments made in the allegations against Novomeský. It also looks in detail at how the poet's self-criticism, repeated a number of times, gradually deepened. Escalating attacks and repeated calls for party discipline forced Novomeský to resign from the use of rational arguments and instead mechanically confess to his guilt. His willingness to concede was helped significantly by the fact that so-called Slovak bourgeois nationalism was criticised in spring 1950 merely as an ideological deviation, and not as a criminal act.
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