Governing the Memory of the Present - Banning Russian War Symbols in Lithuania, Germany, and Poland
Sagatienė, Dovilė
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Wójcik, Anna
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Rhein-Fischer, Paula
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2022
Verfassungsblog
2022-06-23
eng
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
Sagatienė, Dovilė
Free Speech
Militant Democracy
Russian Propaganda
Russian War against Ukraine
War Symbols
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https://verfassungsblog.de/governing-the-memory-of-the-present/
Verfassungsblog
2366-7044
Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH
10.17176/20220623-153300-0
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10.17176/20220623-153300-0
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