Miroslav Kusý (1 December 1931 – 13 February 2019) was a Slovak political scientist and politician. Described as a "dissident" of

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

's communist regime, he was given an eight-month suspended sentence in November 1989 for an anti-government protest. After the

Velvet Revolution The Velvet Revolution () or Gentle Revolution () was a non-violent transition of power in what was then Czechoslovakia, occurring from 17 November to 28 November 1989. Popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Pa ...

, Kusý was appointed as chairman of the Federal Press and Information Office of

. After politics, Kusý became a professor in political science. He died on 13 February 2019, at age of 87 from

heart failure Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to Cardiac cycle, fill with and pump blood. Although symptoms vary based on which side of the heart is affected, HF ...

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1931 births 2019 deaths Charter 77 signatories Politicians from Bratislava Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk People of the Velvet Revolution Slovak political scientists {{Slovakia-bio-stub