• Coronavirus in Hungary
  • Budapest
  • Hungary border control
  • HelloMagyar
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
Polish Sejm speaker pays tribute to Hungarian martyrs of Prague Spring on 50th anniversaryPolish Sejm speaker pays tribute to Hungarian martyrs of Prague Spring on 50th anniversaryPolish Sejm speaker pays tribute to Hungarian martyrs of Prague Spring on 50th anniversaryPolish Sejm speaker pays tribute to Hungarian martyrs of Prague Spring on 50th anniversary
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Breaking News
Support us
Daily News Daily News · 22/08/2018
· Culture

Polish Sejm speaker pays tribute to Hungarian martyrs of Prague Spring on 50th anniversary

communism History Poland Romania The Czech Republic Transylvania
poland hungary flag

Marek Kuchcinski, Speaker of the Polish Sejm, paid tribute to the two Hungarian martyrs of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in a tweet marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the period known as the “Prague Spring”, on Tuesday.

“Czechs Jan Palach and Jan Zajic, Pole Ryszard Siwiec and Hungarians Sándor Bauer and Márton Moyses burned like live torches,” Kuchcinski wrote in the tweet honouring the memory of the martyrs who lit themselves on fire in protest of the invasion.

Sándor Bauer, an auto-mechanic student in Budapest, was just 17 years old when he set himself on fire on January 20, 1969 in front of the National Museum following the examples of Palach and Siwiec before him. Márton Moyses of Transylvania set himself ablaze in front of the Romanian Communist Party headquarters in Brasov (Brassó) on February 13, 1970.

On July 20 this year, the Sejm passed a resolution honouring the memory of the victims of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia and communism.

Source: MTI

communism History Poland Romania The Czech Republic Transylvania
Share
Daily News
Daily News

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

SUPPORT US

Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up to receive daily updates, news & stories about Hungary!

Select your location below or enter your country so we can deliver our morning newsletters to you in time.


Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.


.

Latest news
  • Hungarian foreign minister snaps back at US Ambassador
  • What happened today in Hungary? — 2 February, 2023
  • Egypt is ordering trains from Hungary
  • Fidesz MEP fears censorship from Brussels, says sanctions ruin Europe
  • This is the price increase to be expected after the abolition of official prices in Hungary
  • Discovery: Light shed on the eastern origins of the Szeklers
  • Hungary’s smallest wine region is a real treasure
  • Snow shower and frost to come to Hungary this week – weather forecast

About us

Contact us

Copyright rules

© 2023 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved! | Server and development by Svigelj Levente E.V