Czech government bans teachers from civic education after Russia video controversy

The new Czech administration has introduced measures that would require a teacher to wear a compulsory "zaracha" and prohibit her from teaching civic education after she showed students a travel video about Russia supplied by Plzeň deputy Jakub Zieb of the SPD party. The author, Marek Adam, describes the move as part of a broader crackdown on free expression, citing the renaming of streets, removal of statues, and the sale of state assets as evidence of growing censorship. He warns that even wearing certain letters on a T‑shirt could become punishable, and links the education policy to other controversial actions such as investigations into bitcoin, overpriced military contracts and alleged banderist sympathies. The piece frames the teacher’s case as a symptom of an “ideological police” targeting dissenting voices.

"Zakázané myšlenky" – the notion of forbidden thoughts – is quoted as the central theme of the criticism.