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Jan Palach.
Czech student who killed himself by self-immolation in protest (1948–1969)
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About Jan Palach
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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- university student
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovak Republic, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia
- Born
- August 11, 1948
- Died
- January 19, 1969