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Czech President Petr Pavel on Thursday signed an amendment to the country’s criminal code that criminalises the promotion of communist ideology, placing it on the same footing as Nazi propaganda.

The revised legislation introduces prison sentences of up to five years for anyone who “establishes, supports or promotes Nazi, communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred.”

The change follows calls from Czech historical institutions, including the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, to correct what they viewed as a legal imbalance.

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  • Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    The USSR was a anti-worker, imperialist state that spat on the name of Marx and Engels with it’s very existience. Reactionaries like you are hopeless. It’s sad really, you notice the propaganda and lies of the current hegemon and fall for propaganda of it’s past and present rivals. Instead of fighting alongside your fellow worker for liberation, you keep being a tool, just for a diffrent rich man.

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      If you look at how people vote, especially in the USA, how could the USSR be structured any different for what they wanted to achieve?

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        What’s wrong? Why aren’t you bothering to spew more revisionist bulshit? I’m sure if you tell daddy Stalin or Mao, they will give you a nice little treat, maybe even won’t inprison your whole family?