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Gustáv Husák

1913–1991 · 20th century

Gustáv Husák was a Slovak communist who was imprisoned in the 1950s but rehabilitated in the 1960s. After the Warsaw Pact invasion he replaced Alexander Dubček as party leader in 1969 and presided over the period of normalisation, with purges and censorship. He was also president of Czechoslovakia from 1975 until he resigned in December 1989.

Gustáv Husák
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