Milán Václavík
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Milán Václavík was a Slovak-origin Czechoslovak military officer with the rank of colonel general. He served as defence minister from 1985 to 1989, being the last communist-era defence minister of Cze
Armádny generál Milán Václavík
Lubomír Štrougal
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Lubomír Štrougal was a Czech politician who was the prime minister of Czechoslovakia from 1970 to 1988.
Milán Václavík
…1985. He was appointed defence minister on 11 January 1985, replacing Martin Dzúr in the post. Václavík served in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal under the President Gustáv Husák. Václavík became a member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia soon after his appointment…
Štrougal in 2012
Štrougal standing behind Ludvík Svoboda and Gustáv Husák visiting the Slovak National Uprising memorial in Banská Bystrica in 1969