Prague will build a Palach monument on Alšovo Embankment

Prague - The Prague Council approved the plan to build a monument on Alšovo embankment in honor of Jan Palach. Two nearly six-meter-tall sculptures will cost between six and eight million crowns. Culture councilor Václav Novotný (TOP 09) informed journalists about this today. The twenty-year-old Palach self-immolated in 1969 to express his dissent against the developments in Czechoslovakia following the occupation by Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968.
    The Palach monument is to be located by the square that bears his name. "The site was chosen primarily for its peaceful location in greenery with a view of the river and the panorama of Hradčany," said councilor Novotný.
    The author of the design is architect John Hejduk. The architect dedicated it to Czechoslovakia back in 1991. Wooden replicas were created for the Prague exhibition in the Royal Garden of Prague Castle in the 1990s, which rotted after fifteen years. The theme of the abstract work is a white and black figure - the light-bringer's son and the suffering mother.
    In honor of the brave student, a number of memorial plaques and monuments have already been unveiled in the past.