JUDr. Vlastimil Klíma on the trial with the so-called Green international

In years 1948 - 1954 political trials to ok place in Czechoslovakia. Between April 23 - 26 the judgment-seat of the National court in Prague held the trial of the so-called Green Intemational. The defendants were accused of participation at the Green Intemational. They were meant as disorganizers who appealed the village rich people and former farmers and were going to harm to the socialism of the countryside, to brake the work of the state agricultural syndicates. On the politicallevel the Green Intemational should have repressed the People's democratic order in Czechoslovakia, taken the power in the state by the former "people's" parties, should have helped the retum of capitalism and tum the country into "fascistic agricultural colony of the United States of America" in frame of the so-called "Central European agricultural federation" supported by the U.S. This should have been achieved by Americans provocated world war that would have been supported from inside the state in frame ofthe former people's parties so from the exile. AH defendants were found guilty. Punishments were from death to in prison for life and to 25 years in prison. Vlastimil Klíma was sentenced to life in prison. After nine years spent in the communist jails he was released after the state amnesty in 1960. JUDr. Vlastimil Klíma was..