Palach - Wenceslas Square - Prague - National

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 Jihlava in April 1969. Arrows indicate the place near the National Museum at the top of Wenceslas Square where Palach set himself on fire. (CTK Photo/Josef Nosek)

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Arrows Burned Ctkvintage Evzen Followed Indicate Jihlava Normalization Nosek Pact Palach Plocek Wenceslas Zajic

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