Matter of context? On legal and political aspects of understanding totalitarian symbols

The ban of symbols totalitarian regimes is generally accepted in Europe although constituting a remarkable limitation on the freedom expression. legitimate reason for this historical situation which victims still live with us, and relatively young democracies want to prevent return toxic ideas dictatorships. peculiarity symbolic speech that used can have multiple meanings, so there may be need punish use these only case promoting systems ideologies. This paper aims analyse Central European (and turns Hungarian) legal regulation cases arising from prohibition; pointing out how consistently courts take into account context background symbols.