Poland 'to ban' Che Guevara image

[bijou]

Poland's equality minister, Elzbieta Radziszewska, wants to expand a Polish law prohibiting the production of fascist and totalitarian propaganda so that it includes clothing and anything else that could carry an image related to an authoritarian system.

Anybody found guilty could face a two-year prison sentence.

Mrs Radziszewska said that the proposed amendment to current legislation "would help organisations fighting racism".

The proposal, which could see the faces of some of the leading lights of communist history such as Lenin and Trotsky removed from t-shirts and flags, reflects a Polish view on communism far different from the rose-tinted and romantic images often found in the West.

After experiencing 40 hard years of communism, as well as the horrors of Nazi occupation, few Poles have qualms equating under law the inequities of Nazism and communism.

"Communism was a terrible, murderous system that claimed millions of lives," said Professor Wojciech Roszkowski, a leading Polish historian and member of the European parliament.

"It was very similar to National Socialism, and there is no reason to treat those two systems, and their symbols, differently. Their glorification should be prohibited."

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If you listen carefully you can hear the weeping and gnashing of the teeth of lefties everywhere. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I could get used to eating kilbasa.

[Lord Undies]

The left/commies/liberals/democrats will seeth and claim this is squashing freedom of expression and is the epitomy of irony.

[Thor]

At least the Polocks are showing some sense, huh, Schadie??