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| Rally by the KSČM in Prague (Archive Photo) |
The amendment invokes the known, unhistorical and shameful theory of the "two extremes", thus equating communism with the monster of nazism; under the amended criminal law, the public display of the sickle and hammer or the Soviet flag would incur similar penalty as bearing... swastikas or other Third Reich symbols!
The changes follow calls from some anti-communist, EU-funded Czech institutions, including the so-called "Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes", to correct what they described as an imbalance in the legal system. In reality, what they wanted to do is to criminalize communist ideology by equating it with nazism and fascism.
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM), which is led by MEP Kateřina Konečná, condemned the move as politically motivated. "This is yet another failed attempt to push KSČM outside the law and intimidate critics of the current regime," the party said in a statement.
During the last two decades, Czech Republic, alongside Poland and the Baltic States, are in the front lines of the anti-communist crusade, promoted and coordinated by the European Union and its institutions. We remind that two years ago, Dr. Josef Skala, a high-ranking cadre of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM), was persecuted by Czech authorities for challenging the official narrative on the Katyn massacre!
The attempted distortion of history and the prohibition of the free movement of ideas and political opposition within the so-called “freedom and democracy” of the EU, shall not pass! The people will have the last word!
P.S: It was the Soviet Red Army, alongside Czech communist partisans, that liberated Prague from the Nazi yoke on May 1945.
