# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustav-husak
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:37:24.736Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gustav-husak"
name: "Gustáv Husák"
slug: "gustav-husak"
description: "He led Czechoslovakia through two decades of what the regime called \"normalization\" — the Soviet-approved freeze that followed the Prague Spring. Husák had once been a reformer jailed by Stalinists, then became the man who locked the door on reform."
tagline: "Czechoslovak politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (1913-1991)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1913-01-10"
deathDate: "1991-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Trained as a lawyer, Husák rose through the prewar Communist Party and led in the Slovak National Uprising before the Stalinist purge of 1950 sent him to prison. Released and critical of hardline rule, he became vice-premier under Alexander Dubček during the Prague Spring — then turned. Sharing Soviet suspicion of Dubček's reforms, he was installed as First Secretary in 1969 and spent the next eighteen years presiding over normalization: stable communist governance, Warsaw Pact loyalty, social unrest minimized. Gorbachev's reforms challenged that model; Husák resigned in 1987, but the Velvet Revolution came anyway in 1989. He died in 1991, months after his own party expelled him, a sophisticated intellectual whose pro-Soviet leadership the new state repudiated entirely.