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[OC] Soviet Memorial In Prague (scribe.disroot.org)

submitted 6 months ago by aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org to c/pics@lemmy.world

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The grave site of many Russians killed in Prague during WWII.

And hot take here... Even though i consider myself a socialist, i despise the hammer and sickle. I see it as no better than a swastika. If you need these symbols for your ideology then you should reflect inward a bit more.

[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism. Absolutely not associated with genocide for a thousand years.

The Nazis adopted it, and now Swastika = Nazi.

The hammer and sickle was used to represent industrial workers and farmers to unite against the bourgeoisie. The USSR adopted it, and suppressed Eastern Europe under abject authoritarian rule for half a century.

For individuals who have had to go through that crap, yeah... Why would they not hate it as much as the Swastika?

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[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Hindus still use the swastika as a religious symbol as well as many other eastern beliefs despite what nonhindus view it as.

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[–] wraekscadu@vargar.org 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes they do. And it still doesn't change the fact that the swastika means Nazism for Jewish folk and people who had to witness the horrors of WW2 and the Holocaust.

So, if a Hindu (while knowing what the symbol means for a Jewish person) went up to a Jewish person and waved the symbol in their face, it wouldn't be so nice now, would it?

Similarly, waving the hammer and sickle in front of a Polish person and saying, "akshually it means worker liberation" would be pretty dickish.

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[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

The difference is op claims to be a socialist and is yet repulsed by a universal symbol of the proletariat. This is no different than a Hindu denouncing their religious symbol because of public perception.

And I'm gonna go out on a limb and suspect OP isn't old enough to have experienced anything first hand from Soviets may have done. They are literally the Communists killed my grandparents meme.

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