Comment In Soviet Italy... (Score 1) 374
which is actually a 65 years old free market economy with constitutional rights for what concerns free speech, the crime of blasphemy is punished with up to three years of jail. Those chicks in Russia got two years. And they did not even get beaten by the police in the process.
I would imagine if something like this happened in Italy, there would have been real RIOTS from christians and religious leaders asking for death penalty.
Reality is, public opinion is angered just because this happened in Russia (which is of course far from being a free country but is neither the source of all evil like the "free press" of western world is depicting it)