Jan Pajah Biography

Prague, Olshanskoye cemetery Person Pajah Czech. Jan Palach; On August 11, the Vechatta - January 19, Prague is a student of the specialty “History and Political Save” of the Faculty of Philosophy of Karlov University in Prague, who, in protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the troops of the Soviet Union and other countries of the Warsaw Treaty on January 16, doused himself with gasoline, committed self -immolation near the National Museum on Vaclav Square in Prague.

The biography of the house where Jan Pajah has grown in Vechaty. He died 3 days later in the university Carlov clinic. The student-sculptor Olbram Zube removed the posthumous mask from him. In October, the remains of the Palach were secretly exhumed by the employees of the Czechoslovak special services, defiled and transferred to the cemetery in the city of Vechatta, but after the velvet revolution they were again reburied in the Olshansky cemetery.

After the death of the Palach until April, another 26 people made attempts to self -immolation, thus protesting against Soviet intervention and suppression of the Prague Spring of the city, one of them - Jan Zayits - also committed suicide on Vaclav Square.

Memory in honor of the Palach on August 22, the Czech astronomer-emigrant Lubosh Kuthek called the asteroid palah. Italian musician, performer, writer and actor Francesco Guccini Ital. Francesco Guccini devoted to him the song “Primavera di Praga” Prague Spring, which included in Guccini's album “Due Anni Dopo” two years later released in the year. Czech bard Karel Kryl dedicated several songs to Yana Palach.

One of the central squares of Prague has his name. On Vaclavskaya Square in Prague, in front of the building of the National Museum, a monument was opened in his honor. It represents a wooden cross, sheeted in a stone pavement. The poet Olga Beshenkovskaya-devoted a poem to Janan Palach: the memory of the Czech student Jan Pajha Prague, I can’t stumble on your threshold: here the paving stones, like a requiem, sounds mournfully under his foot ...

The Czech boy was burning, and we had burns, as if Jan, this is me, and not someone else: we knew no longer a luckless and waist. For the homeland, shame ... as a temple was breaking at night ... And a shadow seemed: on stones, as if on the keys, a paragraph - tanks across, dark square - obliquely ... On my lips, snow is blue salty moisture ... And every second responds into Russian!

Either the Slavic soul forgave us by the resurrected Prague, or I realized how naive the executioner and the hero ... by what kind of stones, who would no longer clat a soldier’s boot, the tanker ... Good Vecher, who has seen the story of the Vaclav! The bouquet blazes and the taxi driver affably waved ... The awards in the year Pajah were posthumously awarded the Czech Order of Tomash Masarik Czech.