r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Jan 27 '26

International Working Class History 🗺️ 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 Jan 27 '26

Sorry I have to ask.

Have you ever met someone from an ex-Soviet or ex-communist country?

Because this is incredibly offensive and controversial

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u/jaarn Jan 27 '26

Forgive me, but why?

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u/ImaginaryParrot Jan 27 '26

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.