The last outburst before the Normalisation
Věra Roubalová, a student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague, met the student activists organized by Jiří Müller during her university studies at the end of the 1960s. Roubalová and her classmates published a student magazine called “Buchar” and were actively engaged in the protests against the invasion of the Warsaw-Pact forces into Czechoslovakia in August 1968. They were involved in actions, for example, that were aimed at making it harder for the invading troops to orient themselves in Czechoslovakia. Věra Roubalová remembers very well the funeral of Jan Palach in January 1969. She was among the student organizers of the funeral march through Prague that took place on January 25, 1969. Palach’s funeral is considered to be one of the last manifestations of the people before the onset of the Normalization in the 1970s: “His death was shocking. After he had burned himself, charismatic leaders of the nation spoke out publicly and appealed to the people to not repeat what he had done. What was amazing was the fact that these large crowds of people and students marching through Prague during the funeral were actually not suppressed at a time when the oppressions and reprisals were already commonplace. It was a great manifestation of the power of the people and I think that because of Palach, this was one of the last outbursts before the Normalization, which unfortunately followed suit very quickly.”
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