The Tito-Stalin split had large ramifications for countries outside the USSR and Yugoslavia. It has, for example, been given as one of the reasons for the Slánský trial in Czechoslovakia, in which 14 high-level Communist officials were purged, with 11 of them being executed. Stalin put pressure on Czechoslovakia to conduct purges in order to discourage the spread of the idea of a "national path to socialism," which Tito espoused. COUNT 5
QSN1 How many high-level Communists were purged in the Slansky trial? ANS1 14 QSN2 How many Communists were executed at the Slansky trial? ANS2 11 QSN3 What country had pressure put on it by Stalin to conduct purges? ANS3 Czechoslovakia QSN4 Who espoused the "national path to socialism"? ANS4 Tito QSN5 Who put pressure on Checkoslovakia to conduct purges? ANS5 Stalin