#please please please the ussr and its paraphernalia are not your cutesy communist symbols
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So uh
Does communism not have any symbols aside from the hammer and sickle?
#I've mentioned this before#but to me and many jews (and non-jews) who have history in eastern Europe#it's not fun or quirky or memey to use the hammer and sickle#it's a symbol linked to one of the worst totalitarian states in history#my grandfather was born in Siberia. my grandfather. a baby. who only lived because his mother worked in the kitchens#ny great-uncle smuggled Jewish holy materials into Russia because yes it was that bad.#this thing didn't come down until the chocolating nineties.#please please please the ussr and its paraphernalia are not your cutesy communist symbols#they are the symbols of a state that traumatised people#that killed people#I'm not going to do holocaust comparisons because just no#but as a jew whose family was in ukraine during wwii#it really was being caught between a rock and a hard place.#rambling a bit but this is something i see a lot and it hurts ne every time
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