1969: Josef Hlavatý, a Czech worker, immolates himself in Plzeň in protest against the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia
A few months after the dramatic protest of the Pole Ryszard Siwiec against the intervention of Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia, the Czech worker Josef Hlavatý committed an act of self-immolation in Plzeň. The worst possible cry of helplessness was made in