The Lithuanian Sejm forbade Soviet symbols

The Lithuanian Sejm forbade the use of Nazi and Soviet symbols during rallies, pickets, demonstrations and other public events, RIA Novosti reports. Corresponding amendments are made to the Assembly Law. We are talking about flags, coats of arms, badges, uniforms with the image of a swastika, a sickle and a hammer, stars and other characters, portraits of leaders, and performing hymns.

The law was initiated by Lithuanian conservatives. The author of the bill, Viliya Aleknait Abramiken, noted that the Soviet and Nazi regimes are “twins -brothers”, but the main emphasis in its speeches on the bill under the bill made it necessary to ban Nazi symbols, since the intensified antics from youth using this symbols will defeat Lithuania in the eyes of the world community.

The Social Democrat armor Bradauskas called on the conservatives to stop cracking society and trying to rewrite history, and the member of the Sejm Julius Vesyalka said that "these modes have already discredited themselves, and do not create work for prosecutors if some eighteen-year-old kid came to a rally with a red flag."

For the adoption of the bill, 58 deputies voted, against - three. Another 26 deputies abstained.