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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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  • 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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  • 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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    24, 2024. Stach, Sabine; Troebst, Stefan; Palach, Jan; Brüsewitz, Oskar (2016). Vermächtnispolitik: Jan Palach und Oskar Brüsewitz als politische Märtyrer...
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