#hammer and sickle and communism is not a joke the west is on

[dietcodexes]

Friendly reminder or lesson (for Western Leftists especially) that I learned the hard way: For many Eastern European people and others who have suffered under a communist regime, the hammer and sickle image has the same meaning and effect as a swastika. Most of us in the West have enough distance from the reality of implemented communism and socialism that we feel free to joke or have open discourse about it- but it’s a very real and ongoing horror for many. This should be especially clear with the war in Ukraine. If you’re looking to comment or joke about communism, please consider how it would be perceived if you were talking about Nazis. For people living under these ideologies, the results haven’t been so different.