Wenceslas Square, 50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial plaque for Jan Palach, piety, candles

Wenceslas Square, 50th anniversary of Palach's death, memorial plaque for Jan Palach, piety, candles

People attend a commemorative meeting at Wenceslas Square and lit up candles at memorial plaque for Jan Palach (front) at upper part of Square in Prague, Czech Republic, on January 16, 2019. Palach, a student of the Charles University's Faculty of Arts, set himself on fire in Prague on January 16, 1969 in protest against people's growing lethargy following the August 21, 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. He died of fatal burns three days later, aged 20. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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