Today, 50 years ago, on May 29, 1975 (April 19, 1975), Hosak became President of Czechoslovakia. Gustave Hosak was born in Dubrovka, near Bratislava, on January 10, 1913. In 1933 he studied at the Law Department of the University of Kamensky. In the same year he joined the Communist Party, in 1939 after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, he was actively engaged in anti-fascist struggle, and was arrested several times, and in 1944 he participated in and led the Slovak National Uprising, as Deputy Chairman of the Slovak National Committee, Deputy Chairman of the CPC Central Committee, and after the war as a member of the CPC Central Committee, in 1950 he was accused of engaging in "bourgeois nationalism", in 1951 he was arrested, in 1954 he was sent