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Bulk Of Czechoslovak Meps Require Apology, Explanation For The Eu Officials' Lionization Of Castro

Most of the Czech, Slovak, as well as other post-communist world's political junkies were stunned past times the alone tweet that the boss of the European Union committee Jean-Claude Juncker wrote near the death of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro:


This "hero to many" description was his picked summary of a somewhat longer statement near Castro's decease past times Juncker.

Similar outrageous or at to the lowest degree bizarrely neutral remarks were made past times other leftists including Trudeau (Canada's PM), Obama (lame duck U.S. of A. president), as well as Corbyn (the boss of the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Labour Party) but Juncker's lionization of Castro was almost for sure the most radical ane of all.




Many Czech politicians, particularly the deputies of the European Parliament (e.g. the onetime Czech European Union commissioner Pavel Telička) rapidly reacted as well as expressed their shock. To brand things fifty-fifty worse, Czech Public TV journalist Mr Bohumil Vostal (reporting from Brussels) asked Juncker's spokesman, New Democracy's Margaritis Schinas (Greece), for an apology or an explanation. It didn't halt upwards also well:



Vostal meaningfully asked how it was possible for the boss of the European Union committee to hold upwards signed nether such a shocking controversy near a human who has executed at to the lowest degree 7,000 people, forced 10% of his nation to flee the country, as well as who approved the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, amid other things. Was it a error or a hack? Is at that topographic point a unlike explanation?




The staggering Greek aßhole arrogantly replied that all the unflattering statements near Castro were precisely Mr Vostal's personal opinions that expressed a "very narrow view of reality".

Just imagine. This guy comes from a political political party that paints itself equally a conservative one, relatively to the Greek calibration. But he ends upwards existence almost the same intolerable fanatical commie equally those inward Syriza as well as similar political cesspools. Schinas was literally harassing the Czech journalist because he dared to scream around facts – that Castro was ane of the most terrifying criminals amid the 20th century politicians.

The daze amid the Czech as well as Slovak politicians didn't fade away inward the next week. Today, the European Union observer reported that
Czech, Slovak MEPs [were] 'shocked' past times European Union comments on Castro
and near half of them (largely because they wanted to avoid all commnist-party signatories) receive got filed an official urgent complaint that the European Union committee is obliged to answer inward 3 weeks. The anger is clear from the Czech as well as Slovak text:
As "the elected representatives of the Czech as well as Slovak citizens, who suffered from political persecutions as well as whose lives volition hold upwards forever marked past times the 1968 events," the fourteen MEPs said that "the response past times Mr Schinas was arrogant as well as portrayed shocking ignorance of facts alongside a total lack of agreement history."
They asked Juncker to bring "clear political distance" from his spokesman's words, "be it inward written or inward a world speech."

You know, nosotros ofttimes purpose the phrase "political correctness" equally a laid of taboos past times which the leftists are constraining the people's liberty of speech. But it's obvious that such taboos may inward regulation hold upwards imposed non alone past times leftists – fifty-fifty though the leftists are those who are most excited near the restrictions on the liberty of spoken communication these days. In principle, every gild or community may define its reddish lines.

What Schinas as well as Juncker said as well as wrote is but unacceptably political incorrect. Well, this wouldn't hateful much. So I desire to phrase this work inward a much to a greater extent than tangible way. What Schinas as well as Juncker receive got said is technically criminal according to the Czech law. You may read e.g. this storey from 2000 near a guy who was promoting communism as well as had to aspect upwards a trial. Among other things, the article says
Czech law bans the advertisement of ideologies that aim to suppress basic human rights as well as freedoms, which communism equally the Czechia experienced it before 1989 undoubtedly does. This, of course, is non the outset instance of propagation of hard-line communism inward the Czech Republic. However, until now, the law alone prosecuted far-right extremists, non left-wing radicals.
Our laws but prohibit the sort of a political demeanour that is probable to effect inward the long-term suppression of basic constitutionally guaranteed human rights or republic which could hold upwards similar to the long totalitarian epoch from 1939 to 1989 (with at most 2 brusque breaks). In practice, this law prohibiting the systemically anti-freedom political activities is mainly used to regulate as well as harass (mostly shy) teenagers who decided to piece of work skinheads or would-be Nazis.

But the authors of the law receive got explicitly written that the communist totalitarian ideologies should hold upwards treated basically on equal basis alongside the fascist ones as well as a important part of the relevant people – if non a bulk – absolutely agrees that these 2 ideologies should hold upwards legally considered to hold upwards on equal basis as well as the left-right asymmetry inward the application of the law is unfair. For example, Schinas' denial of the fact that Castro was a criminal against humanity isn't too different from the denial of the Holocaust. Different people receive got unlike opinions near the grade to which these 2 sick attitudes are "the same" but there's no uncertainty near the fact that they're considered comparable.

You know, I receive got used the carefully chosen discussion "comparable" on a Nov 21st, 1989 coming together of the leaders as well as vice-chairmen of the Socialist Youth Union of every course of study (our course of study picked the chairman as well as me, a non-member as well as a dissident) of our high schoolhouse who were writing a petition on behalf of our high schoolhouse reacting to the beating of the students inward Prague 4 days earlier. This lawsuit was ironically led past times these kid-communists as well as the adult inward the room was Ms Morávková, our (rather young) history instructor as well as the chairwoman of the communist political party at the high schoolhouse (who was driving a Mazda precisely a few years later). Our demands were basically a filtered subset of demands written past times the students of the University of Western Bohemia (the names were unlike inward 1989). When nosotros discussed the indicate whether the Lidové noviny (then a dissident newspapers) should hold upwards liberated, Morávková argued that it was unacceptable – after all, alongside such a bad tolerance, nosotros could permit Nazi publications, too. I got excited as well as told her that the ideology of her party's Rudé právo (official communist daily) was comparable to the Nazi ideology. She kicked me out of the meeting, around colleagues receive got slapped me equally a hero, but I am absolutely confident that at most 2 days later, what I receive got said on that twenty-four threescore minutes flow was considered mutual feel or mainstream. The totalitarian ideologies as well as regimes were at to the lowest degree comparable. After all, Stalin has killed to a greater extent than people than Hitler. And hold upwards sure that Castro has executed many to a greater extent than people than Pinochet, too. (And nosotros don't fifty-fifty add together the departure that piece Castro has crippled the Cuban economy, Pinochet has amazingly optimized the Chilean economy.)

You may imagine how shocked nosotros may hold upwards when a spokesman of the chairman of the European Union committee non alone fails to apologize for the quote that mightiness pretty much house Jean-Claude Juncker inward jail if this aßhole dared to insert his stinky pes on the Czech territory. Instead, Schinas has to a greater extent than or less attacked the journalist who precisely pointed out that Castro was a mega-criminal. No, we're actually non on the same frequency.

In fact, I think that fifty-fifty the Czech – largely unreformed – communist political party hasn't always used these bang-up words of praise equally Juncker. When it comes to his evaluation of this history, Juncker is a to a greater extent than hardcore Stalinist than the unreformed Czech communists. Well, I receive got an fifty-fifty amend example. Even Slavoj Žižek, an unpleasant hardcore Slovenian/global Marxist, has said that Castro must hold upwards forgotten equally presently equally possible, largely because he has alone shown his powerfulness to destroy things but when the normal socialist everyday life began inward Cuba, he didn't contribute a damn matter that would hold upwards both innovative as well as positive. When the likes of Žižek don't fifty-fifty view talking near Castro's "heroism", why the hell the boss of the European Union committee does?

Also, Raúl Castro banned naming of the streets after Fidel, reflecting Fidel's ain wish, to forestall the edifice of a cult of personality. Why create nosotros receive got "leaders" similar Juncker who desire to gear upwards that cult instead of relatively moderate as well as sensible commies such equally the Castro brothers? ;-)

Let me scream back that inward the U.S., I've met lots of people who wore a T-shirt alongside Che Guevara, a Bolshevik volume killer who has murdered over a grand of people alongside his ain hand. You can't actually disclose adult people who would apparel these T-shirts inward Czechia, non fifty-fifty if you lot search amid adult commies. H5N1 teenager may hold upwards deluded as well as worship this sort of criminal materials as well as he may sometimes larn away alongside it. But it's pretty much universally agreed that such a teenager is immature as well as politically as well as morally perverse.

For example, I've been coming together Marcos Mariño, a staunch Castilian Marxist as well as really smart string theorist, who has picked a Che Guevara T-shirt, too. Of course, I didn't actually give a damn. We were basically friends. Long before I knew him, I knew that lots of people inward the West are therefore ignorant that they openly worship around of the šittiest symbols of communism as well as mechanisms underlying this ideology – as well as who would pay thousands of dollars for the Lenin-style books as well as memorabilia that didn't receive got the value of a penny after 1989 as well as nosotros were recycling them past times tons. But ane necessary status for this amazing tolerance of mine was that I considered Marcos Mariño as well as similar folks politically irrelevant as well as retarded older kids.

Jean-Claude Juncker is non ane of those. He basically considers himself a piece of work past times (unelected) political representative of the European continent. We but cannot ignore when such a someone tramples upon moral restrictions that are widely considered reddish lines inward at to the lowest degree several nations of the European Union. Fidel Castro was a criminal who has ended or crippled really many lives as well as ane national economy, it's immoral to lionize him, as well as it's precisely OK for really many people – including Christians – to celebrate on the twenty-four threescore minutes flow when he died. Nature has restored an min fraction of jurist – the residue is existence compensated inward hell if you lot believe that such a house exists at to the lowest degree inward "some sense".

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