Talk:Ryszard Siwiec

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Will someone please explain to me what this photograph shows. The image is too small for me to make out any clear discription. It appears that Siwiec is performing self-immolation, but what confuses me is that nobody in the picture seems to be doing anything. Some people aren't even watching. What's going on?
 * He's already on fire. You can see the flame over his head and the left side of his body (on the picture: right). You are right: not everybody's watchin at him. Siwiec made it during a festival. It was very noisy (music) so some people didn't notice the accident instantly. But the audience (above) is clearly running away. Wnuk-pl —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.156.65.8 (talk) 22:15, 30 March 2007 (UTC).

Unsourced speculations on connections with Palach
I am removing the following unsourced text from the article, this speculation does not appear in any sources I have read. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:52, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

"It has not been revealed whether Palach knew about Siwiec's act of protest, as the Polish communist authorities vigorously suppressed any information about it, stating only that Siwiec was "suffering from mental illness". Although a number of Czechoslovaks attended the festival, Siwiec's death became widely known in Czechoslovakia only after the news of it was broadcast on Radio Free Europe two months after Palach's death."

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re:, @User:Poeticbent: according to the sources I see he was the first from C/E Europe, and the first (and last ever) self-immolator (sic...) from Poland. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:27, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

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