Gustáv Husák

Gustáv Husák (January 10, 1913 Dúbravka (today part of Bratislava) - November 18, 1991 Bratislava) was a Slovak politician, a long-term Communist leader of Czechoslovakia and of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. His rule is known as the period of Normalization.

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• 1929-1932: member of the Communist Youth Union (prohibited in 1932)
• 1933-? : studies at the Law Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, then a lawyer in Bratislava
• 1936-1938: member of the Slovak Youth Union (1936 founder and secretary)
• 1937-1938 vice-president of the Slovak Students Union and secretary of the Association for the Economic and Cultural Cooperation with the Soviet Union
• 1940-1944: four times jailed by the government of Jozef Tiso for illegal Communist activities
• 1943-1944: member of the 5th illegal KSS Central Committee, one of the main organizers of the anti-Nazi Slovak National Uprising(1944) and of its leading body, the Slovak National Council
• late 1944- February 1945: he fled to Moscow after the defeat of the Slovak National Uprising
• 1950: charged with ?bourgeois nationalism? with respect to Slovakia (see History of Czechoslovakia)
• 1951: arrested
• 1954: sentenced for life
• 1954-1960: imprisoned
• 1960: conditionally released through an amnesty
• 1963: his conviction was overturned and his party membership restored and he was rehabilitated
• 1963-1968: scientific employee of the State and Law Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• 1969 (April)-?1989: chief commander of the Popular Militia
• 1971 (January)-?1989: president and member of the Presidium of the National Front Central Committee