Dodon's party got into an anti-communist scandal
A scandal surrounding the possible ban of such “communist symbols” as the “Hammer and Sickle” emblem has broken out in Moldova.
As journalists learned, the legal commission of the Moldovan parliament approved draft amendments to the criminal code, which provide for punishment not only for fascism, racism and xenophobia, but also a ban on the use of symbols of the “totalitarian communist regime” for political purposes, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The scandal erupted after it became known that the amendments were introduced by deputies from the ruling Socialist Party, which declares an orientation toward friendship with Russia, where discrimination against the Soviet legacy is painfully perceived.
The paradox is that deputies from the Pro Moldova group, which supports the criminal oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, who fled the country, proposed to exclude the hammer and sickle from the list of prohibited symbols. They were supported by the pro-European opposition.
After the story of the amendments became known to the press, the Socialist Party stated that it was “against the ban on any symbols associated with the Soviet past of our country” and had nothing to do with the text of the amendment bill, which is now being recalled for revision.
Deputy Gaik Vartanyan claims that the text of the bill, at the time of signing and registration, “contained absolutely no references to communist ideology or symbols.” He suggests that the proposal to include a reference to the hammer and sickle in the text was made by public organizations.
Opposition Moldovan politician Mark Tkachuk believes that the incident with the sickle and young man arose due to the elementary carelessness of the deputies who did not proofread the text.
“Looking at such incidents as the ban on communist symbols, you understand that the metaphor about a monkey with a grenade is about socialists. That all their actions are really not just some malicious crimes. These are primitive mistakes and reckless foolishness of arrogant scoundrels,” Tkachuk wrote on his Facebook.
However, there is a more rational explanation for the “incident”. The hammer and sickle are part of the party symbols of the Moldovan communists, who are competitors of the socialists. A ban on the emblem could create problems for the Bolshevik-Leninists with registering for elections.
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