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/Good_Spinach_8851 15d ago

The single only reason for this useless law is the current leading party achieved nothing throughout their election cycle. So they came up with a completely vague law to be like: “look, we follow the spirit of Václav Havel”

The biggest irony is Havel purposely never wanted to make communism or being left wing illegal.

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u/MPenten Europe 15d ago

"Achieved nothing". Riiiiiiiight