this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Really funny too because it was the USSR that gave them their independence.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago

"They will never forgive us for it"

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago

also isn't it weird how communism is to blame for every problem in this society created by a hegemonic capitalist system?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Turns out class conflict is a real thing that emerges from material conditions and not just something the Soviets made up.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pretty funny in its own way that the fall of the soviet union didn't end the cold war

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fascism requires an enemy.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascist 80 years ago, fascist today

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

Fascists gonna fash

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Freedom and democracy. Free speech. Civilized world.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finland: Bootlicking fascists since 1939.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Heated NATO moment

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be lying if I said I was surprised

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I'm only surprised it took them this long

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Safe to say that banning the symbol of the people that defeated the Nazis probably makes you a Nazi

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hammer and sickle is over ❌🙅 Time to use tractor and keyboard 🚜⌨️✅💪

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sympathetic to the Juche symbol as well.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They can't ban stars and the color red, lmao. So long as those are around they'll be good.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that they’ll just ban the new symbol if it gains enough traction

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's always either Ukraine, Baltics, Finland or Poland, even Balkans, Hungary, Czech and Slovakia are silent, alwayse these bark 24/7.

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