The Speaker of the Eighth Sejm laid flowers on Ryszard Siwiec's grave at the Zasanie cemetery in Przemyśl.
- The heroic act of Ryszard Siwiec, a Przemysl resident and Home Army soldier, left its mark on the history of Poland and Central Europe. 52 years ago, he committed self-immolation in protest against the Warsaw Pact troops' invasion of Czechoslovakia. In 2018. Sejm of the Republic of Poland adopted a special resolution dedicated to Siwiec, and within the framework of the Visegrad Library published a book dedicated to almost a hundred suicides who fought for independence in this way - said Marek Kuchciński.

In protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, "living torches" were lit not only on the Vltava River where Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc dramatically immolated themselves. Others also sacrificed their lives, such as Ryszard Siwiec, a lonely defender of Polish honour who became a symbol of Polish-Czechoslovak solidarity. Two Hungarians, Sándor Bauer from Budapest and his compatriot Márton Moyses who lived in Romania, paved the way for Hungarian-Czech-Slovak solidarity.