Posted on 11/16/2005 5:20:18 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
BUDAPEST – A senior member of the Hungarian Communist Workers' Party has received a one-year suspended sentence for wearing a red star, the communist symbol which is banned under Hungarian law.
State news agency MTI said Attila Vajna, who is deputy chairman of the fringe party, was sentenced by the Municipal Court in Budapest on Wednesday for wearing the star at a demonstration two years ago.
Sporting communist or Nazi symbols is forbidden in Hungary. The red star was banned after Hungary threw off communism in 1989.
The sentence comes three days after the Worker's Party voted to change its name to incorporate the word 'communist'.
Those red stars were on the Russian tanks in '56.
As I've said before regarding collectivists:
"In advocating an ideology responsible for the annihilation of 100,000,000 human beings, the enslavement of billions more, and the negation of every single human right, Communists forfeit their rights as humans, and must be dealt with as the insidious, destructive vermin they are."
Communists make Nazis look like jaywalking scofflaws.
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