nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220623-153300-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220623s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220623-153300-0 doi eng 342 23 Sagatienė, Dovilė Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-9842-667X Governing the Memory of the Present - Banning Russian War Symbols in Lithuania, Germany, and Poland Sagatienė, Dovilė Verfassungsblog 2022-06-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Putin’s Russia is a global champion of memory laws that fabricate the state’s perennial innocence and glory and make it a criminal offense to diverge from the state-sanctioned historical narratives. The state’s propaganda has also promoted symbols that convey support for or condoning of the Russia’s war, such as the “Z”, “V”, and St. George's ribbon. The emergence of these symbols in the public sphere has put militant democracy provisions existing in many European legal orders into the spotlight, but also propelled lawmakers in some states to adopt new provisions prohibiting the use of such symbols. We discuss the reaction mechanism in Lithuania, Germany, and Poland. CC BY-SA 4.0 Free Speech Militant Democracy Russian Propaganda Russian War against Ukraine War Symbols Wójcik, Anna Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4439-143X Rhein-Fischer, Paula Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/governing-the-memory-of-the-present/ raw object