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Jan Palach, Čas sluhů nebo Pelíšky. Všechny tyto filmy mají jedno společné – natáčely se i na Univerzitě Karlově. Filmaři univerzitní budovy milují. Kdyby se lovci selfie fotek vydali po stopách tuzemských i zahraničních filmů a seriálů, v nichž se objeví i UK, projdou si téměř celou univerzitu.

Even in the midst of the continuing pandemic Charles University has honoured Jan Palach, the student who in an act of protest in January 1969 doused himself in petrol and set himself alight. The drastic act, sacrificing his life, was aimed at shaking his fellow citizens out of lethargy to protest the Soviet-led invasion.

Ani v době, kdy Česko dusí koronavirová epidemie, nezapomněla Univerzita Karlova na osobnost Jana Palacha a jeho mimořádnou oběť. Někdejšího studenta uctila nejen Filozofická fakulta UK, zástupci vedení univerzity i studentů, ale symbolicky celá akademická obec.

This August 11, Jan Palach would have been 70 years old. A student at Charles University in January 1969, 20-year-old Palach doused himself in gasoline and set himself alight at the top of Prague’s Wenceslas Square. He took the drastic decision to lay down his life as a form of protest – five months after Soviet tanks had rolled into Czechoslovakia.