Knowing that the regime will punish him for this, Imrich Karvaš moved his family, including young Milan, to Bojnice, although he was not able to escape in time to avoid his own arrest by the gestapo.
[1][2] Due to the political background of his father, Karvaš was unable to pursue university studies and had to support himself with manual labor while repeatedly applying to various programs.
[1] Karvaš benefited from the political liberalization during the Prague Spring and was able to move from laborer to engineer position at the plant, defend his candidature at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and travel abroad for a research stay at ETH Zurich.
After his return, he worked as a lead scientist in a chemical technology research institute in Bratislava.
Following the Velvet Revolution, he was appointed a lecturer of industrial chemistry at the Comenius University, where he taught until retirement in 2000.