Monument to the victims of communism in Wenceslas Square (Václavské náměstí) in Nové Město (New Town) in Prague, Czech Republic. Czech students Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc who committed suicides as a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies are depicted in the in the black commemorative plaque.

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