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Milada Horáková 
Milada Horáková 
Milada Horáková Awarded the Medal of Freedom

Czech politician Milada Horakova, who was executed after a communist-staged show trial in 1950 was posthumously awarded the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom by the U.S. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, in a ceremony that took place at the Czech Embassy in Washington November 14.  The ceremony was attended by outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and John Warner, the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Horakova´s daughter, Jana Kanska, accepted the medal.

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