I'm sorry, but were you educated in the US? That's just blatantly false, and on the level of a Russian praising their army's success in Ukraine.
In the EU, Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand and some other countries individuals are protected from retaliation if they're critical of their government. In fact it's the norm for democratic countries. Of course some pretty government officials might try to abuse their position in personal retaliation (happened in Germany recently) but that's why all those countries also have an independent judiciary to control such potential abuses.
From the state for some very specific opinions (we should gas all the Jews)? Yes.
But that's literally the same everywhere with free speech. The specifics vary slightly, e.g. in the US being a woman and topless, or saying you want to murder the US president is a crime, in France insulting Jews is a crime. There is no place on earth with absolute free speech.
1. Being topless is both legal in plenty of states and also not a matter of speech.
2. There's a difference between directly saying you are going to kill someone or incite violence and expressing support for a political ideology. For instance, in Germany, the Communist Party is illegal - it is banned. In Germany, expressing an (awful) opinion that the Holocaust did not occur is illegal and you will be charged. In Germany, video games that even included the Nazis in any way were banned.
The approaches to speech are very different, I am not sure why you are trying to draw an equivalence that does not exist.
The specifics of those exceptions are different. Germany's heavy-handed approach for some things (around Communists, Nazis, Holocaust) come directly from terrible historical experience they do not want to repeat. And that experience includes allowing Nazis to exploit the democratic system to seize power.
> There's a difference between directly saying you are going to kill someone or incite violence and expressing support for a political ideology
How big is the difference if the political ideology in question is violent by nature(e.g. Nazism)?
> In Germany, video games that even included the Nazis in any way were banned
That's untrue. Art and history teaching are explicit exceptions to the Nazi bans. It's just that some historical games, like Hearts of Iron 4, thread a fine line (is conquering the whole world with Nazi Germany glorifying Nazi Germany and their violence? No, but for some probably yes) and prefer to self-censor to avoid any potential issues.
There, I fixed it for you. But it's also naive to think that the government cannot make your life impossible if it's really motivated to do so, even in the US, despite the principle.
Most EU countries keep paying Russia for gas and oil (as an exception to the banking sanctions) because they are really dependent on it, not because they don't want to weaponize the Euro. France is not much dependent on Russian imports though, but Germany is along with Italy, the Netherlands and Hungary mostly.
Uh no. Here’s a list of people incarcerated by President Obama for criticism of the USA: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/employee-speech-and-wh...