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Ida Haendel

British violinist Ida Haendel speaks while recieved by Plzen mayor Martin Baxa in Plzen, Czech Republic on Sep. 16, 2011. (CTK Photo/Petr Eret)

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MARETIN BAXA, MIKE POMPEO, Thanks, America! monument

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (centre) and Mayor of Pilsen Martin Baxa (left) near Thanks, America! monument in Pilsen, Czech Republic, August 11, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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MIKE POMPEO, TOMAS PETRICEK, Thanks, America! monument

Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Tomas Petricek (left) shakes hand with Mayor of Pilsen Martin Baxa and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (2nd left) near Thanks, America! monument in Pilsen, Czech Republic, August 11, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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MARETIN BAXA, MIKE POMPEO, Thanks, America! monument

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (centre) and Mayor of Pilsen Martin Baxa (left) near Thanks, America! monument in Pilsen, Czech Republic, August 11, 2020. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Ida Haendel

British violinist Ida Haendel speaks while recieved by Plzen mayor Martin Baxa in Plzen, Czech Republic on Sep. 16, 2011. (CTK Photo/Petr Eret)

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Stephen B. King, Gregoire Cuvelier, Sean J. Cantrell, Martin Baxa

(from left) U.S. Embassy Defense & Air Attache Col. Sean J. Cantrell, U.S. Ambassador to Czech Republic Stephen B. King, Pilsen Mayor Martin Baxa and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Belgium to Czech Republic Gregoire Cuvelier pose at Thanks, America! memorial to Plzen liberation by US army on May 6, 1945, on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. The Plzen's previously planned annual Freedom Festival had to be cancelled over the anti-coronavirus restrictions banning large gatherings of people. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Liberation Festival Pilsen 2020, online broadcast on liberation of Plzen by US army in May 1945

Instead of Liberation Festival, due of the coronavirus pandemic ban, Plzen launches six-our online broadcast with connection with war veterans guests on liberation of Plzen by US army in May 1945, in DEPO2015, Pilsen, Czech Republic, on Sunday, May 3, 2020. On the photo left there is Pilsen Mayor Martin Baxa. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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Liberation Festival Pilsen 2020, online broadcast on liberation of Plzen by US army in May 1945

Instead of Liberation Festival, due of the coronavirus pandemic ban, Plzen launches six-our online broadcast with connection with war veterans guests on liberation of Plzen by US army in May 1945, in DEPO2015, Pilsen, Czech Republic, on Sunday, May 3, 2020. On the photo left there is Pilsen Mayor Martin Baxa. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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50th anniversary of Josef Hlavaty's death, Masaryk Square, piety, candles

The west Bohemian centre Plzen for the first time today, on Saturday, January 20, 2019, honoured the memory of Josef Hlavaty, a local resident who immolated himself on January 20, 1969, four days after student Jan Palach did the same in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Like Palach, Hlavaty, 25, died of fatal burns a few days after pouring kerosene on himself and setting himself on fire in a square in the centre of Plzen which bears the name of T.G. Masaryk now. Today's commemorative meeting was organised by the Town Hall and Mayor Martin Baxa (Civic Democrats, ODS) laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Josef Hlavaty has a controversial life story and he was a man of different kind than Palach, but key testimonies from January 20, 1969 authorise us to consider him one of those who expressed disagreement with the [Soviet] occupation, Baxa said. The communist regime then succeeded in erasing Hlavaty's act from people's awareness, as a result of which he practically disappeared from history for 50 years, Baxa said, adding that the town of Plzen will be remembering Hlavaty's act annually from now on. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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50th anniversary of Josef Hlavaty's death, Masaryk Square, piety, candles

The west Bohemian centre Plzen for the first time today, on Saturday, January 20, 2019, honoured the memory of Josef Hlavaty, a local resident who immolated himself on January 20, 1969, four days after student Jan Palach did the same in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Like Palach, Hlavaty, 25, died of fatal burns a few days after pouring kerosene on himself and setting himself on fire in a square in the centre of Plzen which bears the name of T.G. Masaryk now. Today's commemorative meeting was organised by the Town Hall and Mayor Martin Baxa (Civic Democrats, ODS) laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Josef Hlavaty has a controversial life story and he was a man of different kind than Palach, but key testimonies from January 20, 1969 authorise us to consider him one of those who expressed disagreement with the [Soviet] occupation, Baxa said. The communist regime then succeeded in erasing Hlavaty's act from people's awareness, as a result of which he practically disappeared from history for 50 years, Baxa said, adding that the town of Plzen will be remembering Hlavaty's act annually from now on. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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50th anniversary of Josef Hlavaty's death, Masaryk Square, piety, candles

The west Bohemian centre Plzen for the first time today, on Saturday, January 20, 2019, honoured the memory of Josef Hlavaty, a local resident who immolated himself on January 20, 1969, four days after student Jan Palach did the same in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Like Palach, Hlavaty, 25, died of fatal burns a few days after pouring kerosene on himself and setting himself on fire in a square in the centre of Plzen which bears the name of T.G. Masaryk now. Today's commemorative meeting was organised by the Town Hall and Mayor Martin Baxa (Civic Democrats, ODS) laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Josef Hlavaty has a controversial life story and he was a man of different kind than Palach, but key testimonies from January 20, 1969 authorise us to consider him one of those who expressed disagreement with the [Soviet] occupation, Baxa said. The communist regime then succeeded in erasing Hlavaty's act from people's awareness, as a result of which he practically disappeared from history for 50 years, Baxa said, adding that the town of Plzen will be remembering Hlavaty's act annually from now on. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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50th anniversary of Josef Hlavaty's death, Masaryk Square, piety, candles

The west Bohemian centre Plzen for the first time today, on Saturday, January 20, 2019, honoured the memory of Josef Hlavaty, a local resident who immolated himself on January 20, 1969, four days after student Jan Palach did the same in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Like Palach, Hlavaty, 25, died of fatal burns a few days after pouring kerosene on himself and setting himself on fire in a square in the centre of Plzen which bears the name of T.G. Masaryk now. Today's commemorative meeting was organised by the Town Hall and Mayor Martin Baxa (Civic Democrats, ODS) laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Josef Hlavaty has a controversial life story and he was a man of different kind than Palach, but key testimonies from January 20, 1969 authorise us to consider him one of those who expressed disagreement with the [Soviet] occupation, Baxa said. The communist regime then succeeded in erasing Hlavaty's act from people's awareness, as a result of which he practically disappeared from history for 50 years, Baxa said, adding that the town of Plzen will be remembering Hlavaty's act annually from now on. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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50th anniversary of Josef Hlavaty's death, Masaryk Square, piety, candles

The west Bohemian centre Plzen for the first time today, on Saturday, January 20, 2019, honoured the memory of Josef Hlavaty, a local resident who immolated himself on January 20, 1969, four days after student Jan Palach did the same in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Like Palach, Hlavaty, 25, died of fatal burns a few days after pouring kerosene on himself and setting himself on fire in a square in the centre of Plzen which bears the name of T.G. Masaryk now. Today's commemorative meeting was organised by the Town Hall and Mayor Martin Baxa, left, (Civic Democrats, ODS) laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Josef Hlavaty has a controversial life story and he was a man of different kind than Palach, but key testimonies from January 20, 1969 authorise us to consider him one of those who expressed disagreement with the [Soviet] occupation, Baxa said. The communist regime then succeeded in erasing Hlavaty's act from people's awareness, as a result of which he practically disappeared from history for 50 years, Baxa said, adding that the town of Plzen will be remembering Hlavaty's act annually from now on. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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50th anniversary of Josef Hlavaty's death, Masaryk Square, piety, candles

The west Bohemian centre Plzen for the first time today, on Saturday, January 20, 2019, honoured the memory of Josef Hlavaty, a local resident who immolated himself on January 20, 1969, four days after student Jan Palach did the same in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Like Palach, Hlavaty, 25, died of fatal burns a few days after pouring kerosene on himself and setting himself on fire in a square in the centre of Plzen which bears the name of T.G. Masaryk now. Today's commemorative meeting was organised by the Town Hall and Mayor Martin Baxa (Civic Democrats, ODS) laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Josef Hlavaty has a controversial life story and he was a man of different kind than Palach, but key testimonies from January 20, 1969 authorise us to consider him one of those who expressed disagreement with the [Soviet] occupation, Baxa said. The communist regime then succeeded in erasing Hlavaty's act from people's awareness, as a result of which he practically disappeared from history for 50 years, Baxa said, adding that the town of Plzen will be remembering Hlavaty's act annually from now on. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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50th anniversary of Josef Hlavaty's death, Masaryk Square, piety, candles

The west Bohemian centre Plzen for the first time today, on Saturday, January 20, 2019, honoured the memory of Josef Hlavaty, a local resident who immolated himself on January 20, 1969, four days after student Jan Palach did the same in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Like Palach, Hlavaty, 25, died of fatal burns a few days after pouring kerosene on himself and setting himself on fire in a square in the centre of Plzen which bears the name of T.G. Masaryk now. Today's commemorative meeting was organised by the Town Hall and Mayor Martin Baxa, left, (Civic Democrats, ODS) laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Josef Hlavaty has a controversial life story and he was a man of different kind than Palach, but key testimonies from January 20, 1969 authorise us to consider him one of those who expressed disagreement with the [Soviet] occupation, Baxa said. The communist regime then succeeded in erasing Hlavaty's act from people's awareness, as a result of which he practically disappeared from history for 50 years, Baxa said, adding that the town of Plzen will be remembering Hlavaty's act annually from now on. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)

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50th anniversary of Josef Hlavaty's death, Masaryk Square, piety, candles

The west Bohemian centre Plzen for the first time today, on Saturday, January 20, 2019, honoured the memory of Josef Hlavaty, a local resident who immolated himself on January 20, 1969, four days after student Jan Palach did the same in Prague in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Like Palach, Hlavaty, 25, died of fatal burns a few days after pouring kerosene on himself and setting himself on fire in a square in the centre of Plzen which bears the name of T.G. Masaryk now. Today's commemorative meeting was organised by the Town Hall and Mayor Martin Baxa (Civic Democrats, ODS) laid flowers at the site of the tragedy. Josef Hlavaty has a controversial life story and he was a man of different kind than Palach, but key testimonies from January 20, 1969 authorise us to consider him one of those who expressed disagreement with the [Soviet] occupation, Baxa said. The communist regime then succeeded in erasing Hlavaty's act from people's awareness, as a result of which he practically disappeared from history for 50 years, Baxa said, adding that the town of Plzen will be remembering Hlavaty's act annually from now on. (CTK Photo/Miroslav Chaloupka)