[1] His father was an official of the fascist militia Hlinka Guard, who served as the mayor of Hubová during the World War II and took over a hotel in the village of Ľubochňa that had been confiscated from a Jewish family.
[4] Húska staunchly defended Mečiar's regime from Western European critique of its poor human rights record, by arguing that the "newly heathen" Europe was prejudiced against Slovakia due to its Christian heritage.
[6] Húska, alongside another Slovak economist Hvezdoň Kočtúch, advocated for a gradual economic transformation away from the state-led economy to free market.
His vision was at odds with the "Big Bang" approach to transformation championed by most of the Czech politicians at the time, as well as the Slovak reformists such as Ivan Mikloš.
[7] Húska was a part of the Slovak delegation negotiating the dissolution of Czechoslovakia with the Czech government representatives at the Villa Tugendhat.