🕯️🖖🕊️ On January 16th Czechs commemorate the life and legacy of Jan Palach, a 21-year-old student who died a martyr’s death in 1969, after setting himself on fire to protest against growing public apathy to the Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring in August of 1968. Hundreds of thousands of people attended his funeral and he became the ‘conscience of the nation’. Find out more in the video below. 📷 Jan Brzobohatý, Amelia Mola-Schmidt | Radio Prague International