Jan Palach
Czech student who killed himself by self-immolation in protest (1948–1969)
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Czech student who set himself on fire in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His act of self-immolation at 20 became one of the era's most visible political statements.
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Jan Palach was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation in 1969 at the age of 20 was a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 which brought an end to the Prague Spring.
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