MEPs: ban hammer, sickle and swastika

Feb 02, 2005
By TBT staff

VILNIUS - While the European Union considers legislation that would ban Nazi symbols, Lithuania’s Vytautas Landsbergis has proposed that the European Commission also outlaw symbols representing other totalitarian ideologies, particularly communism.Landsbergis, along with his fellow MEP Jozsef Szajer, proposed in a letter to the justice commissioner that the public display of the communist-era hammer-and-sickle also be banned.“If any such legislative steps are considered against the swastika used ...

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