- Vasil Biľak
Infobox President
name=Vasil Biľak
imagesize=186px
office=Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
term_start=November, 1968
term_end=December, 1988
birth_date=birth date and age|1917|08|11
birth_place=Krajná Bystrá ,Austria-Hungary
nationality = Slovak
spouse=
profession=Tailor ,Politician
website =|RSDr. Vasil Biľak (born
11 August 1917 inKrajná Bystrá ) was SlovakCommunist leader of Rusyn origin.Vasil Biľak was originally a tailor. In the years 1955–1968 and 1969–1971 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia (ÚV KSS); in 1962–1968 he was the secretary and from January until August 1968 General secretary of ÚV KSS; from April 1968 until December 1988 a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (ÚV KSČ). From November 1968 until December 1988 he was a secretary of ÚV KSČ with significant influence on the foreign policy and the ideology of the party. In 1960–1989 he was a member of National Assembly, later Federal Assembly.In 1968 he belonged to the exponents of the conservative wing in the KSČ, he supported the Soviet invasion and participated on the normalisation process after the political liberalization called the
Prague Spring .He was one of the politicians who signed the invitation letter for the armies of
Warsaw Pact countries.Kieran Williams, “The Prague Spring and its aftermath: Czechoslovak politics 1968-1970,” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).] In December 1989 he was suspended from the KSČ.References
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