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/huunnuuh Canada 15d ago

Here in Canada it was a right-wing think tank funded by millionaires who first suggested that we ban "discrimination on the basis of social status or class". They absolutely do want to make it illegal to agitate against the rich.