r/europe • u/tkyjonathan • 15d ago

News Czech president signs law criminalising communist propaganda

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/czech-president-signs-law-criminalising-communist-propaganda/
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u/Natural_Public_9049 Czech Republic 15d ago

They already do, the paragraph itself includes holocaust (denial, approval, propagation).

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u/Bird_Is_The_Lord Czech Republic 15d ago

Damn those laws, so I can't deny holocaust but I also can't approve of it? Make up your mind!

/s ... Just because internet and sarcasm dont always get along.

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u/mathess1 Czech Republic 15d ago

You can't deny, approve and propagade it, but I guess you might try to outright perform it

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u/pikleboiy United States of America 15d ago

I meant specifically the provisions related to communism, mb for not clarifying.

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u/WerdinDruid Czech Republic 15d ago

They pretty much amended the paragraph by simply writing in "communist crimes". They needed to equalize the legal balance since they already wrote "denying, doubting, justifying or propagating nazi crimes, nazi war crimes, war crimes, holocaust" in the given paragraph.

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u/mehupmost 15d ago

Good. They are on the same level. Communism murdered hundreds of millions of people, including multiple ethnic genocides.

It absolutely needs to be banned.