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Gustáv Husák

Gustáv Husák was a Slovak politician 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.

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politics · Leader of Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1987 · politician · lawyer · jurist · also Gustáv Husák, Husák

Born 10 January 1913 · Died 18 November 1991 · Q157651

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Awarded Order of Lenin (1988).
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Awarded Order of Klement Gottwald (1987).
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2026· 1 entry

Apr 2, 2026Documented record69% confidence

Novinky.cz: Gustáv Husák

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2025· 1 entry

Apr 16, 2025Documented record69% confidence

Moviefone: Gustáv Husák Centre Stage - Where to Watch

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2024· 1 entry

Dec 14, 2024Documented record69% confidence

ČT24: Před 35 lety skončil ve funkci Gustáv Husák

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2021· 1 entry

Aug 10, 2021Documented record69% confidence

Chicago Tribune: Gustav Husak, 78, former hard-line president of…

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2019· 1 entry

Apr 29, 2019Documented record69% confidence

SME: Husák has blood on his hands. Should the communist leader be the greatest Slovak?

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2012· 1 entry

Jan 10, 2012Documented record69% confidence

Prague Daily Monitor: President Gustáv Husák, the face of Czechoslovakia’s ‘normalisation’

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1991· 3 entries

Nov 18, 1991Documented record86% confidence

Died 1991-11-18.

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1991Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

A few months after he was expelled by the reformed Communist Party

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1991Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Husák received the sacrament of reconciliation from a Catholic archbishop, Ján Sokol

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1988· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1988Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Lenin (1988).

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1987· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1987Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Klement Gottwald (1987).

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Jun 15, 1987Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1987).

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1987Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Did little to thwart the collapse of communist rule in the 1989 Velvet Revolution

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1983· 3 entries

Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Hero of the Soviet Union (1983).

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Jun 15, 1983Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Lenin (1983).

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1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union

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1982· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1982Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Klement Gottwald (1982).

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Jun 15, 1982Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1982).

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1978· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1978Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of the October Revolution (1978).

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1975· 2 entries

1975Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Husák was elected President of Czechoslovakia

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Jan 1, 1975Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: President of Czechoslovakia (1975–1989).

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1973· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1973Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Lenin (1973).

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1973Source gives the year onlyDocumented record72% confidence

The marriage to Husáková-Čáslavská did not take place until 1973, when Husák visited to India.

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1972· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1972Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1972).

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Jun 15, 1972Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Klement Gottwald (1972).

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1969· 5 entries

Jun 15, 1969Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (1969).

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Jun 15, 1969Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Lenin (1969).

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Jun 15, 1969Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Order of Klement Gottwald (1969).

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Jan 1, 1969Documented record75% confidence

“In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”

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Jan 1, 1969Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1969–1987).

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1968· 1 entry

1968Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

(Prague Spring), Husák, originally Dubček's ally and a moderate supporter of the reform programme, began calling for caution

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1950· 1 entry

1950Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Fell victim to a Stalinist purge of the party leadership, and was sentenced to life imprisonment, spending the years from 1954 to 1960 in the Leopoldov Prison

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1944· 1 entry

1944Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Had taken 62% in the 1946 elections in Slovakia (whereas in the Czech part of the republic of then-Czechoslovakia, the clear winners were the Communists), thus complicating the Communist ambitions for a swift taking of p

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

When he started his studies at the law faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava, he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) which was banned from 1938 to 1945

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1929· 1 entry

1929Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

At a crucial point, when the Czechoslovak Communist Party was being more closely integrated into the Comintern

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1913· 1 entry

Jan 10, 1913Documented record86% confidence

Born 1913-01-10.

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