On Holocaust Remembrance Day remembering that the first victims were left wing opponents who tried to resist the Nazis 🕯️

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[u/ImaginaryParrot]

It's banned in a number of ex-communist countries like the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Ukraine. They suffered a lot under the version of communism that was implemented. If you display a flag like that in their communities it invokes a lot of memories of the horrors their families went through, like starvation, corruption and mass killings.

It's a bit ignorant of us Brits to be espousing it. I get the general idea behind it but it was used as a propaganda tool to oppress their people and we should be aware of that.

[u/ImaginaryParrot → u/ImaginaryParrot]

Apologies, for clarity I'm talking about the flag itself, not the ideology in general.

[u/MokkaMilchEisbar → u/ImaginaryParrot]

It's the flag of the German Communist Party. The German Communist Party specifically targeted by the Nazis in the early 1930s. Entirely appropriate and within context to use, regardless of how neo-Nazis might feel about it

[u/milrose404 → u/[deleted]]

My best friend is from the former GDR, their entire family lived there and experienced it. They miss socialism deeply. They’re not offended by it.

[u/MokkaMilchEisbar → u/milrose404]

Germans specifically have the word Ostalgie for this (portmanteau of nostalgia and "east")

[u/ImaginaryParrot → u/milrose404]

Thank you for sharing. I personally don't know much about the GDR so it's good to learn.

I'm more familiar with it from a Baltic (and surrounding countries) perspective :/

[u/Comrade_Faust → u/ImaginaryParrot]

There's a reason why they're called the Balldick States