Jan Palach


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Jan Palach
Jan Palach (11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969; ) was a Czech student of history and political economy at Charles University in Prague. He committed self-immolation as a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies.

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