Russia continues to test the gullibility of those right-wingers who insist on seeing Putin as a conservative figure.<\/p>\n
A few days ago, Czech President Petr Pavel<\/strong>, who is supported by the center-right Spolu platform, signed a law criminalizing the promotion of Nazism and communism<\/a>, in a new attempt to confront totalitarian movements that try to undermine democracy from within<\/strong>. Let us remember that in 1968 Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring<\/a>, a peaceful, democratic uprising against the communist dictatorship established by Moscow in Czechoslovakia. The Czechs have not forgotten this painful part of their past or the oppressors who imposed a dictatorship on them and denied them freedom for decades.<\/strong><\/p>\n It's the Kremlin that does seem to want Czechs to forget that terrible moment in their past. Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Ministry rejected the Czech law, calling it a \"right-wing revenge move\" following \"Brussels' directives to distort history.\"<\/em> As if vetoing a totalitarian movement that has killed more than 100 million people<\/a> were \"distorting.\"<\/p>\n It should be remembered that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe already condemned the crimes of communism in 2006<\/a>, through its Resolution 1481. At that session, United Russia, Vladimir Putin's party voted against the conviction<\/a>. The situation was repeated 13 years later, in 2019, when the European Parliament condemned the crimes of Nazism and Communism<\/a>, a resolution criticized by Vladimir Putin<\/a>, who called it \"the height of cynicism\".<\/p>\n In response to these condemnations, in 2021 Putin criminalized in Russia any attempt to equate Nazism with communism<\/a>. This should not come as a surprise to those who have followed the dictator's career. Let us remember that Putin was an intelligence officer for the KGB<\/a>, the sinister Soviet political police<\/strong>. As president of Russia, he has dedicated himself to undoing the democratic reforms implemented by Boris Yeltsin, driven by nostalgia for the USSR.<\/p>\n In June 2017, Vladimir Putin said that demonizing dictator and genocidal Stalin is \"a way to attack the Soviet Union and Russia\"<\/em><\/a>. In January 2018, Putin equated communism with Christianity<\/a>, comparing Lenin's mummy to the relics of saints<\/strong> and stating that \"communist ideology is very similar to Christianity. Freedom, brotherhood, fraternity, justice... all of these appear in the Holy Scriptures.\"<\/em> In the invasion of Ukraine, Russians are installing Soviet symbols (such as communist flags and statues of Lenin) in occupied cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n In addition, Putin's main allies are the communist and socialist dictatorships of China, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and Nicaragua<\/strong>, anti-democratic, far-left governments that violate human rights. Therefore, it is normal that the Russian dictator is angry with the Czech Republic for vetoing the totalitarian ideology that Putin praises<\/strong>, because ultimately, it is one less way for the Kremlin to try to destroy Czech democracy from within. What is incomprehensible is that there are right-wing people who support this dictator<\/strong>, who is nostalgic for the USSR.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Photo: Sputnik.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russia continues to test the gullibility of those right-wingers who insist on seeing Putin as a conservative figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[10444,10737,10497,19242,10731,24897,7887],"class_list":["post-60322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-communism","tag-czech-republic","tag-far-left","tag-petr-pavel","tag-russia","tag-spolu","tag-vladimir-putin"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:04:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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