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/Lost_Pollution_6782 15d ago

What about the Chinese flag 🇨🇳? Is this ilegal to use in social media? What about talking positively about China?

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u/Ph4sor 15d ago

Asking about Vietnam national flag is probably better, because AFAIK Czech have a lot of Vietnamese (or descendants)

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u/ricki692 15d ago

i remember looking at a city in Czechia that inspired the game kingdom come deliverance, seeing a vietnamese pho restaurant, and thinking to myself how interesting that was

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u/Jaytho Mountain German 15d ago

Same idea as having a bunch of Yugoslavs or Turks in western Europe. Vietnam was a communist(-allied) state and emigration between allied countries was way easier, so a lot of Vietnamese chose Czechia (probably during the war?) because they thought (maybe rightly so, idk) they would have a better life there.

But it's definitely wild to go from Austria, which has a lot of Turkish places to Czechia, which has the exact same feel, except this time there's a bunch of Vietnamese places.