What a joke. The government consisting of neoliberals and nazis banning communist symbols, when the communist parties of Finland get like 0,1 % of the total vote every single election. Stalin should not have stopped at Tali-Ihantala.
Really funny too because it was the USSR that gave them their independence.
“They will never forgive us for it”
Fascist 80 years ago, fascist today
Yep
Isn’t it weird how we’ve collectively gone back in time 50 years to the Cold War? It’s become more and more common to hear libs and conservative call each other commies, the Hammer and Sickle are being banned, and Capitalists talk about the Russian Federation like it’s the actual Soviet Union.
Turns out class conflict is a real thing that emerges from material conditions and not just something the Soviets made up.
Who’d have thunk it
also isn’t it weird how communism is to blame for every problem in this society created by a hegemonic capitalist system?
pretty funny in its own way that the fall of the soviet union didn’t end the cold war
Fascism requires an enemy.
this is more capitalism requires empire for the expansion of new markets
What’s the difference?
I’d argue we are going as far back as the 1920s, with the global economy on the verge of imploding, socialism becoming popular in western nations, and the increasing tolerance of fascism (even nazism) and anti-communism reaching dangerous levels.
One day very soon, something is going to wake people up to the reality that they’ve been so scared by Russia and China that they’ve opened the door for a new Nazi regime.
Given how much people been scared? They’ll still say it’s a lesser evil. They said that after WW2, when US was prancing around Europe, bringing back fascists to power. They said that after 1991. They are saying it right now about Ukraine and Baltics.
Few years ago they banned the swastika from their airforce
Actually no, they are still using it
More messed up is that it took them this long to do it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Academy_(Finland) The air force academy still has the swastica in its flag.
I regularly see people try to defend Finland using it because it predates nazism, but so what. Acknowledging it is forever tainted by association and that maybe they should distance themselves from it isn’t admitting some type of defeat.
People probably rocked Hitler moustaches before him too, but you don’t see people running around with them anymore (except one comedian in my country that I absolutely despise).
I’d be lying if I said I was surprised
I’m only surprised it took them this long
Then just make a new symbol, the sickle is not as representative today as it used to be when it was invented anyways, since agriculture is more industrialised now, at least in Finland.
This maybe
They can’t ban stars and the color red, lmao. So long as those are around they’ll be good.
Don’t give them ideas.
Finland to declare war on space
Hammer and sickle is over ❌🙅 Time to use tractor and keyboard 🚜⌨️✅💪
I’m sympathetic to the Juche symbol as well.
Safe to say that banning the symbol of the people that defeated the Nazis probably makes you a Nazi
Well their air force flags literally still have swastikas in them. But no, hammers and sickles are the problem! Nazi scum nation.
Actually, they replaced it a few years ago with something that’s totally not a sonnenrad.
Fluffly sonnenrad lmao. Also why the hell there is even crown there
I’m not gonna say I agree with this or defend censorship but when your country got invaded by the most famous communist country in history and had a bad time under their rule, then it’s quite understandable why people there don’t like symbols associated with said country.
The entire affair is just a mess of history. A fascist dictatorship being replaced with a communist one.
A fascist dictatorship being replaced with a communist one.
Most informed liberal.
and had a bad time under their rule
A fascist dictatorship being replaced with a communist one.
I’d like to hear more about this alternative history you got rolling around your skull where Finland became communist. I live in the reality where they joined nazis (as Stalin knew they would, which is why he had to move the border away from Leningrad), participated in starving a city to death and threw POWs into death camps, not the other way around. And then they turned around, seeing the writing on the wall, and avoided justice that way.
And now they’re still nazis.
What were they doing before being invaded?
Maybe participating in a lil seige, just a cheeky lil seige of Leningrad?
Tbf the siege of Leningrad happened after.
And just to be clear, in case any historical revisionists are reading this: the Continuation War was not the USSR invading Finland, it was Finland invading the USSR alongside Nazi Germany.
Oh yeah, tbh I’m always get that confused with something they did earlier. Was it letting the Nazis invade though a corridor of land?
>“I’m not gonna say I agree with this or defend it…”
>Proceeds to agree with it and defend itI hope your realise that people can understand why others think in a certain way without agreeing with that way of thinking. You seem to think that because I said that I can understand why Finnish people might not like the hammer and sickle, I must therefore support banning it. I don’t.
If you’re doing a devil’s advocate of something you don’t support, you should critique it.
Otherwise it has “I’m not racist but insert racism” vibes
Considering you phrased it “[their] country got invaded” by the USSR, there seems to be some real overlap
It doesn’t matter what you intended to do. You ended up defending Finland’s decision. People are not going to pour over your background and study your life in details to say “NateNate60 is a swell guy”. They’re going to read your previous comment and say yeah, you defended Finland banning communist symbols because they allied with the nazis 80 years ago and are still salty about getting their ass handed to them when they joined in the siege of Leningrad.
Curiously, liberals always try to “put in the shoes” of the fascists but never of the commies.
One of the many curiosities of the world along with the bearded lady (she has a hormonal imbalance) and Houdini’s daring escapes.
Look who was constantly working for the independence of Finland from the Russian Empire (bolsheviks), look who actually did helped and allowed Finland to become independent (bolsheviks), look what happened in Finland after independence (revolution was drowned in blood by protofascists), look who supported white army general Yudenich invasion of RSFSR (Finland plus Estonia and UK), look who supported head white general Kolchak even though Kolchak explicitly denied Finland independence (Finnish “hero” Mannerheim).
Finnish counterrevolutionary romance, or more actually marriage with fascism didn’t started in 1940, it started in 1917 by attacking communists with the help of every protofash possible.
I didn’t say that the dislike for the symbol was rational; I just said that I understand how people could come to dislike it.
You thought Finland was part of the Soviet Union, maybe you should just go educate yourself.
You mean, except over century of being governed and/or allied by fascists?
Finland was never communist though. When the Russian Empire became the Soviet Union, the Finnish government asked to secede, and Stalin (who was minister for nationalities) convinced everyone to let them have independence. Finland then became independent without a fight.
Even after the winter war Finland never became communist.
Finland was socialist for a short while before their revolution was drowned in blood by reactionaries. Also it’s not just “Stalin convincing everyone”, Finland independence or at least autonomy was one of the constant communist points since tsar crackdowned on Finland in 1890’s.
Freedom and democracy. Free speech. Civilized world.
Right 😂