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    Jan Palach (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University...
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  • Jan Palach is a Czech biographical film directed by Robert Sedláček. The film follows Jan Palach during 1968 and 1969 and shows the final 6 months of his...
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    Jan Palach Square (Czech: Náměstí Jana Palacha) is a town square in the Old Town of Prague. It is located on right bank of the Vltava River next to the...
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    part in a hunger strike and a commemoration ceremony by students for Jan Palach near the statue of Saint Wenceslas in Prague. On the day of the twenty-first...
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    Jan Palach Square Hostouň Klánovický les On 21 December 2023, 14 people were killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at the main Faculty of Arts building...
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    several protest suicides by self-immolation (the most famous being that of Jan Palach), but no military resistance. Czechoslovakia remained a Soviet satellite...
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  • video of this song, directed by W.I.Z., is dedicated to Czech student Jan Palach who in 1969 set himself on fire in protest against renewed Soviet suppression...
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    24, 2024. Stach, Sabine; Troebst, Stefan; Palach, Jan; Brüsewitz, Oskar (2016). Vermächtnispolitik: Jan Palach und Oskar Brüsewitz als politische Märtyrer...
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  • drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation...
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    invasion of Czechoslovakia and he was deeply touched by the sacrifice of Jan Palach. Sozanský was active organizer of various unofficial meetings and artistic...
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    Republic. It is designed in the neo-renaissance style and is situated on Jan Palach Square on the bank of the river Vltava. Since its opening in 1885, it...
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  • Siwiec's death foreshadowed the much better known self-immolation of Jan Palach in Prague four months later. Siwiec was the first person from Central...
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    but this trend was reversed by the Soviet occupation in 1968, which Jan Palach, a student of the faculty, protested against by setting himself on fire...
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  • 1977), Estonian footballer Jan Palach (1948–1969), Czech student self-immolated in 1969 protesting against the Soviet invasion Jan Peerce (1904-1984), American...
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  • self-immolation as a political protest. He is usually named together with Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc whose self-immolations were similar political protests as Plocek's...
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    it moved towards a more repressive approach to speech and dissent. Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc's protests against the end of the Prague Spring used self-immolation...
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    further researching public events at the nearby Rudolfinum building, Jan Palach square and other locations at the Prague Old Town. Kozák received a gift...
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    were later replaced by department stores. On 16 January 1969, student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square to protest the Warsaw Pact invasion...
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  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, overdose of sleeping pills Jan Palach (1969), Czech student, self-immolation Mico Palanca (2019) Filipino actor...
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    Krajowa veteran Ryszard Siwiec, as well as those of two Czech students, Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc, and of toolmaker Evžen Plocek, in protest against the Warsaw...
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  • website of Radio Prague International in Russia due to a report about Jan Palach from 2001. Battle for Czech Radio Czech Radio, the Czech publicly funded...
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    strikes etc. More extreme forms include suicide such as the case of Jan Palach's, and Jan Zajíc's protests against the end of the Prague Spring and Kostas...
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  • themselves to death. Similar events were reported in central Europe, such as Jan Palach and Ryszard Siwiec following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia...
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    for lack of evidence. Also that month, following the self-immolation of Jan Palach, reformers renewed their offensive against conservative hardliners. Dubček...
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  • message on the reverse of his ballot paper referring to himself as "the new Jan Palach". Preliminary results published shortly after the referendum showed that...
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    Myself called Kam tenkrát šel můj bratr Jan (Where Did My Brother Jan Go That Time), dedicated to Jan Palach, the student activist who killed himself...
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  • party membership by almost one-third. On 19 January 1969, the student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion...
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    Pribićević (1875–1936), was a Croatian Serb politician in Austria-Hungary. Jan Palach (1948–1969), student who set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square (Prague)...
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    (362 km) journey at speeds of up to 110 miles per hour (180 km/h). Student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet...
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    programme of moderate reform would continue. On 19 January 1969, student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague to protest the renewed...
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