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Old 03-29-14, 08:09 AM   #9
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I can see this going well...


Anyway, as a nation who was on the receiving end of some of the Third Reichs finest, I struggle frequently to understand the banning of the swastika, but equally I can understand the fear and worry of it being hijacked by Neo-Nazis. However, one does have to ponder that if the swastika holds such power because of its blood stained past, then what of the hammer and sickle? It is drenched in as much blood if not more than the swastika, and yet it is still perfectly permissible to use it within Russia.
There are other genocides, including the colonisation of the Americas if one wishes to look upon it as such, which have taken a higher death toll than the Holocaust, and yet the events are often overlooked and dismissed.

Still, it is a German internal matter, and if Germany is fine with it, then that is the main thing really. I don't fully understand it, and think that banning things only tend to make them more alluring to those already susceptible to such things, but it's not for me to decide on such matters.
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