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Peter Ančic — Husák’s Generation
Those born in the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic between the years 1972 and 1982 are often referred to as “Husák’s Children”. In the normalisation period, with Gustáv Husák as President since 1975, the Communist Party’s policy to support young families resulted in a baby boom – a strong population wave, during which the number of children that had been born was higher than the number of inhabitants who had died.
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