Comment by rvnx
9 hours ago
In France for example, if you carry a nazi flag, you get booed and arrested. But if you carry a soviet flag, you get celebrated.
In some Eastern countries, it may be the opposite.
So it depends on cultural sensitivity (aka who holds the power).
> But if you carry a soviet flag, you get celebrated.
1. You ain't gonna be celebrated. But you ain't gonna be bothered either. Also, I think most people can't even distinguish the flag of the USSR from a generic communist one.
2. Of course you will get your s*t beaten out by going around with a Nazi flag, not just booed. How can you think that's a normal thing to do or a matter of "opinion"? You can put them in the same basket all you want, but only one of those two dictatorships aimed for the physical cleansing of entire groups of people and enslavement of others.
3. The French were allied to the Soviet Union in World War 2 while the Germans were the enemies.
4. 80%+ of Germans died on the eastern front, without the Soviet Union heroic effort and resistance we'd all be speaking German in Europe today. The allies landed in Europe in june 44, very late. That's 3 years after the battle of Moscow, 2 years after Stalingrad and 1 year after the Battle of Kursk.
First off, the Soviet Union actually started WWII on the side of Germany. It was only when the Nazis attacked them, that they switched sides. If that's your criteria for "French were allied to the Soviet Union in World War 2" then, by the same logic, the French were also allied to Italy in WWII, since during the last months Italy changed sides. [1]
> only one of those two dictatorships aimed for the physical cleansing of entire groups of people and enslavement of others.
Not sure. Are you talking about Soviets wanting "to physical cleansing" of all bourgeoisie? Or about what the Nazis wanted to do the same to the Jews?
The "Soviet Union heroic effort and resistance", was a meat grinder implemented by Stalin, where he forbade men, women and children to leave Stalingrad and let them to be killed by the millions by war, hunger and cold, to stall the German troops. You act like the "noble Soviets" did this out of their "enormous courage in the fight against fascism", but in fact, they only did it because they had more chances of surviving against the Nazis, than of surviving against their own communist government. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_No._227
Again, if it wasn't for the Soviet Union whole Europe would be speaking German today.
After ww2, the overwhelming majority of french people credited the soviet union as the major contributor to German defeat.
On top of that, the communist party was very important at the time of german occupation as it formed the core of the french resistance. Even today the french communist party still takes 2/3% of votes in elections, albeit a shade of the 20/30% it once had.
So obviously there are going to be french sympathetic to the soviet union due to historical reasons and some hardcore communists leftists.
On the other hand, there are 0 valid reasons to consider any use of the nazi flag sane and even barely comparable.
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