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#SUFFRAGETTES
On the 100th anniversary of some women in the UK gaining the right to vote, a campaign has been launched calling for Suffragettes who were jailed to be posthumously pardoned. Many, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, have supported the call, but some say pardoning the Suffragettes goes against what they fought for. @jeremycorbyn said: “Labour in government will both pardon the suffragettes and give an official apology for the miscarriages of justice and wider persecution they suffered.”
#HOLOCAUSTBILL
President Andrzej Duda of Poland has signed legislation that would outlaw the term ‘Polish death camp’. The country’s nationalist-conservative Law and Justice (PIS) party passed the legislation off to the Constitutional Court in what seems to be an attempt to appease critics. The “Holocaust bill” would make those who claim Poland is responsible for Nazi crimes liable for a fine or imprisonment. @Yannikouts said: “Poland wasting so much of nation’s political capital on minor issues and making all kinds of unnecessary enemies. PIS is a disaster for Poland.” @Mazaborowski posted: “The #Holocaust remembrance bill passed by the Polish parliament is motivated first and foremost by the objection to the term #Polishdeathcamps, which indeed is untrue.” @Omerchechek added: “Polish law denies the reality of Holocaust. Why should the victims and witnesses of the Holocaust have to watch what they say for fear of being arrested?”
#SNOWINMOSCOW
More than one month’s worth of snow has fallen in the Russian capital over the past few days, sparking rare school closures and power outages. @Latlands said: “In winter in Moscow, practically every day is a snow day – and nobody ever closes anything because of it. This is the city whose weather famously defeated Napoleon – but never fazes its residents. This storm must have been a monster.” @Hurricane_dane added: “I wonder why they had so much trouble with it. Seventeen inches of snow in a couple of days isn’t much for areas used to snowfall.” @kiev1969 tweeted: “It’s only seventeen inches.”