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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.
>"I'm not gonna say I agree with this or defend it..."
>Proceeds to agree with it and defend it
I 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.
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.
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