In our country, however, it is different and freedom of speech also excludes the promotion of genocide, acts of violence or advocacy of Nazi and Communist crimes. The aktualne.cz website provides a justification of the sentence against Josef Skala. "This was a clear propaganda exhibition beyond the bounds of the law, which from beginning to end was aimed at only one thing: to convince the listener who will have the misfortune to turn on the programme that not much happened in Katyn, and if it did, it was all the fault of the Germans, because the Soviet Union did not commit any war crimes during the Second World War or any other war crimes. ...No one anywhere in the world would dare to do that if it were about the crimes of the Germans, Auschwitz, the Holocaust," emphasized Tomas Hübner, the judge of the District Court for Prague 7 who heard the case in the first instance, adding that he believes the misconception persists that communist and Nazi crimes are not on the same level. "This is not true, the law knows absolutely no such distinction."
Correct, red and black totalitarianism should be treated equally. They are both comparably criminal and have been involved in the destruction of entire populations. The Holocaust has been proven beyond doubt and the culprits for the mass murder of millions of Jews are the German Nazis. Similarly, the guilt of the Soviet Communists in the murder of Polish officers at Katyn is indisputably proven. Of course, one cannot compare the number of dead, but denial of the historical truth deserves to be punished in both cases. Indeed, it could lead to a repetition of earlier horrors in the future. And if these three do not stop their lying and genocide denial, then I hope they end up behind bars. It is possible to lodge a constitutional complaint with the Constitutional Court against the Supreme Court's verdict, but in my opinion that would be absolutely irrelevant in this case.
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