Editing Gustáv Husák (section)

== Other important data ==
*1929–1932: member of the Communist Youth Union (prohibited in 1932)
*1933–1937: studies at the law faculty of the [[Comenius University]] in Bratislava,
*1938 received a title Dr. (of law) and started to work as a lawyer in Bratislava
*1936–1938: member of the Slovak Youth Union (1936 founder and secretary)
*1937–1938 vice-president of the Slovak Students Union and secretary of the Association for the Economic and Cultural Cooperation with the [[Soviet Union]]
*1940–1944: four times shortly jailed by the government of [[Jozef Tiso]] for illegal Communist activities
*1943–1944: member of the 5th illegal KSS Central Committee, one of the main organizers of the anti-Nazi [[Slovak National Uprising]] (1944) and of its leading body, the Slovak National Council
*late 1944–February 1945: he fled to Moscow after the defeat of the Slovak National Uprising
*1950: charged with "[[bourgeois nationalism]]" with respect to Slovakia (see [[History of Czechoslovakia]])
*1951: arrested
*1954: sentenced to life imprisonment
*1954–1960: imprisoned
*1960: conditionally released through an amnesty
*1963: his conviction was overturned and his party membership restored and he was rehabilitated
*1963–1968: scientific employee of the State and Law Institute of the [[Slovak Academy of Sciences]]
*1969 (April)–1987 (December): chief commander of the Popular Militia
*1971 (January)–1987 (December): president and member of the Presidium of the [[National Front (Czechoslovakia)|National Front]] Central Committee