NoFreeWill posted:

fascist aesthetics in the 21st Century are just gonna be cheap plastic knockoffs... I bet they won't even have snappy dress uniforms

Uh no kidding, scroll up to that photo. No assigned seats. Business casual. Fucking, tie optional. Where is the group of 800 children singing a choreographed dance about the agricultural yields achievable through White Power?

Ukraine’s parliament passes law to allow interning Russian citizens. Supported by ‪‎EU‬, ‪‎USA‬.

"Under law, martial rule legal measures stipulate interning citizens of a foreign state, which threatens with an attack or carries out an aggression against Ukraine," an explanatory note says

KIEV, May 12. /TASS/. The Ukrainian parliament broadly approved a law on Tuesday, allowing measures to intern Russian citizens living on the territory of Ukraine.

The law on martial rule was approved by 254 deputies compared with the required minimum of 226 voices in its favor.

Ukrainian MPs approved the bill in the first reading on April 9, after which it was sent for finalization after evoking many critical remarks.

"Under law, martial rule legal measures stipulate, in particular, interning (forcefully settling) citizens of a foreign state, which threatens with an attack or carries out an aggression against Ukraine," an explanatory note to the document says.
Under the law, the imposition of martial rule automatically entails labor duty for the able-bodied population, permits the compulsory alienation of property, bans gatherings and meetings, the activity of undesirable political parties, stipulates media regulation, the forcible sale of property under private or communal ownership, the imposition of a cufew, the restriction of the freedom of citizens’ movement and so on.

The Ukrainian parliament initially planned to pass the law as a whole after discussions pursuant to a shortened procedure. However, MPs who spoke on the bill demanded a full procedure of discussions as there were "a lot of amendments and remarks" to the document.

The document says that "martial law is a special legal regime imposed in Ukraine or on its separate territories in the event of an armed aggression or the threat of an attack, the existence of a danger for the state independence of Ukraine and its territorial integrity."

Martial rule may be imposed after Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) approves a relevant decree by the country’s president, the document says.
Analysts say the preparation of new editions of the law on martial rule may indicate the government’s readiness to impose it in Ukraine.

http://tass.ru/en/world/794261

getfiscal posted:

that law is dumb for a lot of reasons. one is that if russia was sending secret troops into ukraine it wouldn't let them keep their russian passports. the other is that huge numbers of ukrainians have russian passports. not just 'russian' ukrainians either. i mean even if you live in lviv and spit at people on the street when they speak another dialect of east slav you'd probably have a foreign passport as an insurance and travel thing if you're an international traveler with money.

i dont think anyone even pretends to believe this law isnt targeting eastern ukrainians and any dissent

NoFreeWill posted:

fascist aesthetics in the 21st Century are just gonna be cheap plastic knockoffs... I bet they won't even have snappy dress uniforms

this is the perfect encapsulation of what modern antifascist discourse looks like

Panopticon posted:

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed into law legislation that bans the use of communist symbols.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32766913

you will have to call it something else, steg. I still advocate for Britons Nostalgic for Industry, Community, Envrionment (B-NICE) as the UK branch of the Rhizzonternational

John-Paul Himka has some good commentary on this

http://net.abimperio.net/node/3442 posted:

The second law, on condemnation of the communist and national-socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes and the prohibition of propagating their symbols, was introduced into parliament by Oleh Lyashko and other members of his Radical Party, including Yuriy Shukhevych. The law is part of a widespread trend in East Central Europe to equate communism with Nazism, a trend that has been strongly criticized by many Holocaust scholars and activists. Indeed, the main reason that Nazism figures in the law is so that Soviet communism can be lumped in together with it as totalitarian. It is possible, however, that the condemnation of German national socialism is also intended to serve a propaganda function, demonstrating that Ukraine distances itself from fascism, thus countering a key theme of Russian propaganda.

In any case, for Ukraine this is really a decommunizing law. This can be seen clearly in how gingerly and selectively the law prohibits Nazi propaganda and symbols by comparison to its treatment of communism. Propaganda and justification of either regime is punishable by up to five years in prison and in some cases also by confiscation of property. The law bans symbols of communist regimes – any flags, emblems, or other symbols of the USSR, the republics of the Soviet Union, the East European satellites, and Yugoslavia. The national anthems of the USSR and all republics are also prohibited. So are flags and other items bearing a hammer and sickle or a plow, hammer, and five-pointed star. Images, monuments, and plaques commemorating the activities of the communist party are also banned, excepting such as refer to the fight against the Nazi occupiers or to the development of Ukrainian culture. Communist slogans, citations from high-ranking communists (defined as raion secretaries and higher) and any members of the organs of repression are also prohibited unless they refer to the development of Ukrainian science and culture. Communist toponyms from oblasts to alleyways have to be changed. No political party will be allowed to call itself a communist party. What is being attempted is a comprehensive excision of the memory of communism.

By contrast, the banning of Nazi symbols and propaganda is much more restricted. Forbidden are: the symbols of the Nazi party itself, the flag of Nazi Germany, the state emblem of Nazi Germany, naming a political party the National Socialist German Workers' Party, images and inscriptions connected with the activities of the Nazi party, slogans of the party, and citations from the Nazi leadership and higher administration. This list, which takes only about a fifth of the space of the communist list in the text of the law, is shorter mainly because Ukraine is covered with vestiges of the former communist system and there are still a significant number of Ukrainians who have retained pro-Soviet historical identities, while Nazi symbols and propaganda are marginal, especially as defined in this law. But there is also a deliberate selectiveness to the prohibition of Nazi symbols that stands in contrast to the sweeping prohibition of communist symbols. Nazi party symbols are banned. But there is no prohibition on the Wolfsangel symbol, which was widely used in the Third Reich and by wartime Dutch Nazis and today's neo-Nazis. Although not banned by this new law, the Wolfsangel is banned in Germany. I think it is probable that the absence of a ban on the Wolfsangel in the new Ukrainian law is motivated by the Wolfangel's use as the symbol of the radical nationalist/neo-Nazi Social-National Assembly and the Azov battalion. A similar discrepancy can be noted in the naming of political parties. No party can call itself a communist party. But a confederation of right-wing nationalist groups can call itself the Social-National Assembly, since the ban is restricted to the name "National Socialist German Workers' Party," an unlikely choice for any Ukrainian party, however extreme. Notably, too, the law has nothing to say about the symbols or commemoration of the Waffen-SS Division Galizien, which are in evidence in Galicia and sometimes in Kyiv. This imbalance of treatment reinforces the interpretation that the law is really about decommunizing Ukrainian society.