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Some Western experts speculate that Husák may have agreed to the trials of lower-ranking liberals in order to fend off demands from hard-liners that he try the political leaders of the Prague spring. Two leading "ultras" are Vasil Bilák and Alois Indra, the Soviets' principal collaborators during the Warsaw Pact occupation of Czechoslovakia. Bilák and Indra reportedly favor punishing even Dubček, who lives quietly in Bratislava. He is in charge of the motor pool for the Forest Administration...
Also, Husák is engaged in a power struggle with two rivals on the Politburo, Vasil Bilàk and Alois Indra, ultra hard-liners who immediately welcomed the Soviet invasion in 1968. In order to protect his tenuous position, Husák may have been forced to order the arrests...
...seems all too clear, however, that the noose has been tightening around Dubček's political neck. In recent weeks he has come under noisy attack from such hard-line extremists as Party Secretary Vasil Bilák, who denounced Dubček as a "weak man" and his reformist colleagues as "two-faced people." After months of rumors, the party paper, Rudé Právo, announced that Dubček had been suspended from party membership and that several leading reformists, including ex-National Assembly President Josef Smrkovsky, had been expelled from the party. Though...
Perhaps significantly, the announcement of Dubček's suspension came just after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had spent five days in Prague. The Czechoslovak party official most frequently seen in Gromyko's company was none other than Vasil Bilák, an ominous sign that he might be Moscow's choice as Husák's eventual replacement...
...distinction "between those who were misled and those who did the misleading." Similarly, Radio Prague promised that the screening process would be "neither a police raid nor a penal expedition nor a general revenge." Yet no one can be too certain. The screening committee includes Alois Indra and Vasil Bilák, two of Czechoslovakia's most notorious collaborators with the Russians...