Who'd have thunk it

Fascism requires an enemy.

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.

Actually, they replaced it a few years ago with something that's totally not a sonnenrad.

It’s gotten so bad, I expect the next WW2 era first person shooter won’t be having a Russian campaign this time.

The next? Call of Duty: WWII already came out six years ago and only had an American campaign lol

It was honestly pretty hilarious how hard that one went into "America won WWII" territory when previous WWII ones were pretty good about showing how other countries made the bigger contributions (even with them still having biases and propaganda), most of them had a Russian campaign too

It's gotten so bad, I expect the next WW2 era first person shooter won't be having a Russian campaign this time.

Nah they'll have one but it'll be about all of the destroyer battalions of the NKVD with you playing as Putin's father burning Ukrainian villages with zero context in regards to why it was done.

I'm sympathetic to the Juche symbol as well.

Don't give them ideas.

They can ban anything they want. The cops and judges enforcing the law instinctively knows who to target and who to ignore.

Of course, but that's dialectics for you. There is no eternally solved problem with no negative effects.

Based.

I fucking love this symbol.

I've seen that symbol before, but I can't remember where or when

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Academy_(Finland) The air force academy still has the swastica in its flag.

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.

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.

I would not say without a fight. The Finnish Whites massacred the Finnish Reds (...and by extension anyone at all thought to be sympathetic to workers).

https://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/1930/year-one-sa/finland2.html

The victors massacred the vanquished. Since ancient times class wars have always been the most frightful. There are no more bloody and atrocious victories than the victories of reactionary classes. Since the blood-bath inflicted on the Paris Commune by the French bourgeoisie, the work had not seen anything comparable to the horrors of Finland. From the first shot of the civil war, “belonging to a workers’ organization in White territory meant arrest; to have been an official in such organization meant execution. The massacre of socialists reached such proportions that it ended by interesting no one.” At Kummen, where 43 Red Guards fell in battle, nearly five hundred persons were executed! There were “hundreds” executed at Kotka, a town of thirteen thousand inhabitants. “They didn’t even ask their names; they just led them away in groups.” At Raumo, according to a bourgeois newspaper, “five hundred prisoners captured on May 15 got the punishment they deserved the same day.” “April 14 in Toeloe, a suburb of Helsingfors, two hundred Red Guards were killed with machine guns ... The Reds were hunted from house to house. Many women perished.” At Sveaborg the public executions were set for Trinity Sunday. In the neighborhood of Lakhtis, where the Whites took thousands of prisoners, “the machine guns worked several hours a day.” “On one day alone two hundred women were killed with dumdum bullets; pieces of flesh flew in every direction.”

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.

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.