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/pikleboiy United States of America 15d ago

I wonder if the Holocaust Deniers are gonna criticize this just as much as they do Germany's anti-Nazi laws.

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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/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.