On Jan. 16, Prague commemorates Jan Palach as his monument returns to the National Museum while a new book in English honors ...
On January 16, Czechs mark 57 years since Jan Palach set himself on fire in central Prague â€“ a wake-up call to Czechoslovak society after the 1968 Soviet occupation.
PRAGUE — Could Soviet-style communism be reconciled with the dignity and freedom of the individual? In 1968, the question was put to the test when the leader of Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party, ...