Das tschechische Parlament stimmt dafür, die doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft für Russen zu verbieten

This only means new applications will be rejected/frozen, not that Russians already being dual citizens are now prone to lose their Czech citizenship, right?

As a Czech person who knows a bunch of long-term Russian residents and Russian-Czech citizens with Russian-only family members: This law is a piece of populist bullshit that will do nothing to stop actual Russian agents, of which there are many (a lot of them straight up Czechs, born and raised, lol), but will make life complicated for a lot of every day honest people who just didn’t get around to getting Czech citizenship in time.

If the Czech government wanted to fight Russian influence, there are very obvious things they could be doing, like fighting Russian disinformation, or closing down Russian embassy (half of which lies on illegally annexed land after the ’68 invasion to this day lol…). But I guess that would mean pissing off some powerful people so lets just bully the everyday man…

No one should be forced to become Czech citizen it’s inhumane and unjust

Banning multiple citizenship just makes life hard for normal people. Spies and agents can come from anywhere and have whatever nationality, Russia doesn’t care.

If you want examples: in Romania we have the now famous Calin Georgescu who was funded by the Russians, only has Romanian citizenship. Again in Romania, a colombian tried to plant a bomb, backed by Russia. It doesn’t freaking matter.

Even if we’re talking about general populations: Russia doesn’t care about citizenship. If Putin wants to invade lr whatever else, they will say that the Russian ethnicity people have to be saved and they’ve been oppressed by having to give up their Russian citizenship.

Good.

A Russian friend of mine was waiting for the day she could get her Czech citizenship so she could burn her Russian passport. So for those who love democracy, it’s not a problem. For those who love Russia, well fuck them

Good.

Now look, I condemn the war, but this is clear discrimination. If this was the normal United States this would’ve been struck down immediately on the basis of violating the 14th Amendment. If it’s really about preventing Putin’s agents, then why does this law also not apply to Belarusians? Not saying this law’s OK, but Belarus is basically a Russian puppet at this point.

Two points: firstly, why are Eastern European governments so determined to prove Putin right about the whole “the West hates Russians” thing – I thought the whole point was Ukraine’s defending itself from a dictatorship and that Putin lied all the time about the West?

And secondly, it’s not just Russians falling for Putin’s propaganda – it’s also Westerners (think of the shit-eaters that serve to propagate Russian propaganda). How did AFD become more popular recently? Why did Marine Le Pen gain more MEPs this year and get a third of all seats in the French parliament? How did Robert Fico and Peter Pellegrini get elected in Slovakia? etc, etc… Point is if you’re really concerned about Putin’s agents, you also have to look within the country as well, not just blame Russian citizens for everything.

Why is everyone happy because of this??? Like the poor people are trying to escape their authorian country and move to another where theres freedom, there is no reason for them to ban dual citizenship for russians trying to live in a country with freedom of speech. (Also why tf are the comments of this this thread supporting this?! This is straight up Russophobia man)