Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:50:39 +0200Eliyahu Rips: The Latvian Palach-inspired “human torch” protester who survivedhttps://english.radio.cz/eliyahu-rips-latvian-palach-inspired-human-torch-protester-who-survived-8281083© 2026 Radio Prague International When Jan Palach burned himself to death in January 1969 over the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his radical protest was echoed by a number of young men in the Eastern Bloc. Among them was Eliyahu Rips, who put a match to his petrol-doused clothing in the Latvian capital Riga on April 13, 1969. But unlike the others, Rips survived, after passers-by put out the flames. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/rips_eliyahu.jpg?timestamp=1590785615 Eliyahu Rips: The Latvian Palach-inspired “human torch” protester who survived https://english.radio.cz/eliyahu-rips-latvian-palach-inspired-human-torch-protester-who-survived-8281083 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9