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Gustáv Husák

1913 - 1991

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Gustáv Husák (UK: HOO-sak, US: HOO-sahk, HEW-; Slovak: [ˈɡustaːw ˈɦusaːk]; 10 January 1913 – 18 November 1991) was a Czechoslovak 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 was born to an unemployed worker in Pozsonyhidegkút, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Bratislava-Dúbravka, Slovakia). He joined the Communist Youth Union at the age of sixteen while studying at the grammar school in Bratislava. In 1933, 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. During World War II, he was periodically jailed by the Jozef Tiso government for illegal Communist activities. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gustáv Husák is the 1,286th most popular politician (down from 1,042nd in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Slovakia and the 4th most popular Slovak Politician.

Gustáv Husák was the president of Czechoslovakia from 1975 to 1989. He is most famous for his liberalization policies that led to the Velvet Revolution in 1989.

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Among politicians, Gustáv Husák ranks 1,286 out of 19,576. Before him are Miguel Díaz-Canel, Abd el-Krim, Alfonso VI of León and Castile, Abd al-Rahman I, Antoine of Navarre, and Magnus Maximus. After him are Külüg Khan, Ivan VI of Russia, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Muhammad of Ghor, Lysimachus, and Aurelia Cotta.

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Among people born in 1913, Gustáv Husák ranks 18. Before him are Claude Simon, Paul Ricœur, Josef Bican, Willis Lamb, Jesse Owens, and Bảo Đại. After him are Ramón Mercader, Makarios III, Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Stanford Moore, Benjamin Britten, and Sabiha Gökçen. Among people deceased in 1991, Gustáv Husák ranks 12. Before him are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Serge Gainsbourg, Carl David Anderson, Yves Montand, Klaus Barbie, and Klaus Kinski. After him are W. Arthur Lewis, Jiang Qing, Graham Greene, John Bardeen, Miles Davis, and Frank Capra.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Gustáv Husák ranks 6 out of 418. Before him are Alexander Dubček (1921), Elizabeth of Hungary (1207), Philipp Lenard (1862), Gyula Andrássy (1823), and Jozef Tiso (1887). After him are Francis II Rákóczi (1676), Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778), Ferenc Szálasi (1897), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), and Rudolf von Laban (1879).

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Among POLITICIANS In Slovakia

Among politicians born in Slovakia, Gustáv Husák ranks 4. Before him are Alexander Dubček (1921), Gyula Andrássy (1823), and Jozef Tiso (1887). After him are Francis II Rákóczi (1676), Ferenc Szálasi (1897), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Rudolf von Laban (1879), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Juraj Jánošík (1688), and Vladimír Mečiar (1942).

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