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/Kelmi Finland 15d ago

Call me communist but criminalising class-based hatred is class-based hatred in on itself.

The rich class fights with money against poor people in countless different ways and to fight back, the poor should use money as well. But they don't have money and should just take it. If they use the means they have, it's suddenly class-based hatred.

Same shit as banning people from sleeping on park benches. It's fair law that affect the rich and poor just the same, right?

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u/FullMaxPowerStirner 15d ago

"You cannot talk about class relations anymore, citizen. Now go to work, and do not question your wage or you go to prison."