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.
The hammer and sickle is certainly tainted; More devisive than helpful.
Great photo though. Love the color treatment.
Humans are symbolic creatures. We can change it if needed but something new will have to take its place.
I don’t disagree, but it is the symbol the honored dead fought under. In context I think it’s fine, but if you’re using it today, that’s different.
The funny thing is, that these symbols have been made illegal to use in Czechia since January (esp. For promoting communism).
I wasn’t aware of that. Are there plans to remove them from places like this memorial, or is it just contemporary uses that are banned?
Im pretty sure it’s for contemporary uses (esp., political - there’s still a communist party here).
So the self proclaimed socialist has no idea what the hammer and sickle represents do you?
LOL. So here come the purity tests for anyone who has a different view than a tankie.
You’re so unserious
Claims to be socialist, speaks like a liberal
Claims to be socialist, speaks like an authoritarian, state capitalist.
So says the authoritarian child. Go throw your tantrum somewhere else.
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?
Hindus still use the swastika as a religious symbol as well as many other eastern beliefs despite what nonhindus view it as.
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.
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.
oh. I’m old enough you dumb cunt. You guessed wrong.
Why would tbe hammer and sickle be akin to a swastika? It is a symbol of the unity of the working class, urban and rural
Because they’re not actually a socialist, they’re a shit Lib that thinks that they are on the left.
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