Two new laws that ban communist symbols while honouring nationalist groups that collaborated with the Nazis have come into effect in Ukraine, raising concerns that Kiev could be stifling free speech and further fragmenting the war-torn country in the rush to break ties with its Soviet past.
The first law “on the condemnation of the communist and Nazi totalitarian regimes” forbids both Soviet and Nazi symbols, making something as trivial as selling a USSR souvenir, or singing the Soviet national hymn or the Internationale, punishable by up to five years in prison for an individual and up to 10 years in prison for members of an organisation.
It also makes it a criminal offence to deny the “criminal character of the communist totalitarian regime of 1917-1991 in Ukraine” in the media or elsewhere.
Panopticon posted:that's from may it's just been rediscovered by reddit
came here to post this
discipline posted:HenryKrinkle posted:
https://twitter.com/pyotr_kropotkin/status/624681632713175040
that guy on twitter is so wild lmao
ukrainian anarchists are often nationalists ime. take a look at the horseshit they say about borotba
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:
We've been frequently talking about this since May, when it happened, the article is clearly and visibly dated May 21st, and the URL even has May in it.
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HenryKrinkle posted:https://twitter.com/pyotr_kropotkin/status/624681632713175040
Is this guy FBI or does he just suffer from special snowflake disease?
"A fight has emerged over the Communist symbols, however, not unlike that between supporters and opponents of the Confederate battle flag in the southern United States."
