2009/11/28 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>rg>:
Out of curiosity, would this include if you made the Communist Manifesto
available on your website?
I guess it depends for what purpose you will do this. If from the
context of the page seems that your
goal is to organise a real revolutionary movement which is going to
establish a communist regime in
Poland again it might be prosecuted. But if it is just a historical
page about communist movement in Poland it is OK under par. 3 of p.
256. The same apply if you would publish a Main Kampf (although in
case of Main Kampf it is still under copyright - Hitler died in 1945
so Main Kampf will go to public domain in 2016).
That, itself, is quite different from the
totalitarianism of Stalinism
or Maoism.
Yes. Sure - depending on context again. In fact there is Polish
Communist Party which is quite legal and formally registered
organisation. It has its own website:
http://www.kompol.org/
although the website is located outside Poland (I guess - just in
case) :-) This party in their bylaws claims that it is going to
establish "democratic communist system" not by force-revolution but by
election. The party publish their newspaper which is legally printed
in Poland:
http://www.kompol.org/brzask/index.html
On the other hand we have extreme-right wing tiny parties which are
quite close to be fascists although they also claim officially that
they are not. See for example:
http://www.polskapartianarodowa.org/
Anyway - this party is actually under prosecution - because their
leader was accused for open, aggressive antisemitism, and as you can
see their website is also located outside Poland...
If you ask me if the current change of law is silly - I can agree with
you :-) But I don't think if the results is going to be mass
prosecution of foreign tourist parading in Che T-shirts on Polish
streets, although some silly policeman may warn you to undress it and
if you say no - it may end up in court when you can claim that wearing
Che T-shirt do not fulfill the conditions of promoting any communist
regime. I guess soon after the formal publishing of this law there
will be left-wing guys who especially wear T-shirts with Che go to the
street in order to be prosecuted and prove at the court that they can
still do it legally :-)
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