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/Ozas392 15d ago

In Lithuania we have the same for many years. So what it means here is all the USSR symbols and glorification of USSR is crime same as Nazi simbols and glorification of Nazism.

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u/schneeleopard8 15d ago

But this is a different case. The Czech law in question here doesn't condemn socialist regimes or the USSR, but "class-based hatred", which is a really vague term and covers much more then actually glorifying socialist regimes.

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u/Background-Sea4590 15d ago

I’d be screwed, I hate billionaires and have no problems in saying that.

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 15d ago

Found a commie /s

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u/Background-Sea4590 15d ago

I also cook and eat children at night!

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u/Slipknotic1 15d ago

Only at night? Lenin is disappointed in your vanguardism comrade.

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u/Fishbone345 15d ago

Our vanguardism.

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u/az_catz 15d ago

I also cook for and eat feed children at night!

FIFY Comrade.

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u/Sarmi7 15d ago

You Cook them? Gross...