Senate backs recognition of anticommunist resistance

In related news, the Senate has backed a proposal to officially recognise active members of the anticommunist resistance. Depending on their degree of involvement, people involved in combating communism would have the position of veterans of war. Such persons would include those responsible for sabotage, assisting escape over the country’s closed borders, organising demonstrations and petitions and persons imprisoned for at least three years because of their ideologies. A similar bill was approved in the Senate in 2008 but was never read in the Chamber of Deputies.