Jan Palach - funeral procession - national flag

Czech university student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16, 1969, as a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. His funeral turned into a major mass protest against the occupation. Another student Jan Zajic burned himself to death in the same place on February 25, 1969, followed by Evzen Plocek in April 1969 in Jihlava. The Czechoslovak national flag is carried in the funeral procession of Jan Palach in the Old Town Square in Prague, January 25, 1969. CTK Photo/Jiri Finda

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Burned Evzen Finda Followed Jihlava Jiri Normalization Pact Palach Plocek Wenceslas Zajic

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