Gustáv Husák
Czechoslovak politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (1913-1991)
Gustáv Husák (10 January 1913 – 18 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak communist politician of a Slovak origin, who served as the long-time First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 and the President of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989. His rule is known as the period of the Normalization (Normalizace in Czech, Normalizácia in Slovak) after the Prague Spring.
Gustáv Husák | |
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 Gustáv Husák in 1989 | |
| First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | |
| In office 17 April 1969 – 17 December 1987 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander Dubček |
| Succeeded by | Miloš Jakeš |
| President of Czechoslovakia | |
| In office 29 May 1975 – 10 December 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Ludvík Svoboda |
| Succeeded by | Václav Havel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 January 1913 Dúbravka, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) |
| Died | 18 November 1991 (aged 78) Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
| Political party | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1933–1991) |
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