Plaque erected at prison where Heliodor Píka became first person executed in Czechoslovakia after show trial

A plaque in honour of General Heliodor Píka has been erected at Bory prison in Plzeň, where he was executed exactly 60 years ago. He formed a unit from Czechoslovak soldiers in Soviet camps during World War II and in 1945 was appointed to one of the highest posts in the country’s army. However, four years later General Píka became the first person in Czechoslovakia sentenced to death after a Stalinist show trial. The plaque states that he was murdered because he had witnessed the Soviet gulags.