In the history of Czechoslovakia, normalization is a name commonly given to the period following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and up to the glasnost era of liberalization
Soviet stamp issued in 1970, marking the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Czechoslovakia from Fascist Occupation.
The Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising in Bratislava, opened in 1972
Czechoslovaks in 1972
Gustáv Husák
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Gustáv Husák was a Slovak 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 to 1989.
Normalization (Czechoslovakia)
…of the Moscow Protocol by Dubček and the other jailed Czechoslovak leaders on 26 August 1968, while others date it from the replacement of Dubček by Gustáv Husák on 17 April 1969, followed by the official normalization policies referred to as Husakism. The policy ended either with Husák's removal as leader of…
Husák in 1989
Gustáv Husák (in the middle) in 1971 on a visit to the GDR. Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker are also pictured.
Gustáv Husák and Ceaușescu at the Pitești Car Factory, June 1977
Velvet revolution in 1989