Evzen Plocek - funeral - self-immolation

Evzen Plocek, deputy director of the car parts company Motorpal, set himself on fire in Jihlava on April 4, 1969, in protest against the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. His was the third suicide by self-immolation after two Czech students, Jan Palach and Jan Zajic, burned themselves to death in Prague in January and February 1969. In spite of difficulties, the Motorpal workers were able to hold a public funeral in Jihlava on April 12, 1969. CTK Photo/Frantisek Nesvadba

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Able Burned Difficulties Evzen Frantisek Jihlava Nesvadba Normalization Pact Palach Plocek Self-immolation Soviet-led Spite Suicide Themselves Zajic

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