• doylio@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    It’s a bit bizarre that if you have a hammer and sickle on your shirt it’s a kind of edgy cool, but if you had a swastika on your shirt you risk being fired/cancelled/arrested

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      5 months ago

      Don’t you think that depends where you go? In some parts of the world you’d probaly be killed for it

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        5 months ago

        This is fair, I wonder if in former Soviet spaces the roles are reversed

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          5 months ago

          Also depends where you go I guess. I just know that in the Balkans they are more chill about it, because Tito was one of the ‘friendlier’ dictators. So some people wish to go back to a united Yugoslavia. Makes sense considering the rising ethnic tensions in the post-yugoslavia days. Most of the eastern european countries however will probably have a more negative stance on this (Poland, CZ etc).

          And my bet is that you’ll definitely have a hard time in Indonesia, because they still make the communist responsible for a lot of deaths that happened in the 60s - good documentary about it is ‘The Act of Killing’. Also Cambodia… dunno about Thailand

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      5 months ago

      ML tend to kill themselves. Nazis and fascists tend to kill everyone. Other than that they are both violent and suppressive authoritarian regimes. I think the killing everyone part though is why Nazis are generally less accepted.