Jan Palach - funeral - last respects - Karolinum - scouts
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. Members of Junak (Czechoslovak version of Young Scouts) pay their last respects to Jan Palach at the courtyard of Karolinum, January 24, 1969. (CTK Photo)
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13798072
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45398409
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2938px x 1964px
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Credit
© CTK Photobank / Mary Evans
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CTK - CTK
