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Bil̕ak, Vasil

LC control no.n 83006566
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingBil̕ak, Vasil
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Variant(s)Bili︠a︡k, Vasil
Associated countryCzechoslovakia
Birth date19170811
Death date20140206
Place of birthKrajná Bystrá (Slovakia)
Place of deathBratislava (Slovakia)
Field of activityCzechoslovakia--History--Intervention, 1968
AffiliationKomunistická strana Československa
Profession or occupationPoliticians
Found inHis Pravda zostala pravdou, 1971.
New York times (online), viewed Feb. 7, 2014 (in obituary published Feb. 6: Vasil Bilak; b. Aug. 11, 1917, in a mountain village of eastern Slovakia; d. Thursday [Feb. 6, 2014], Bratislava, aged 96; former Communist leader in Czechoslovakia who in 1968 encouraged the Soviet Union to invade his country to halt efforts for an overhaul that he saw as a threat to socialism)
Associated languageslo cze