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by napalmall 1573 days ago
Unless it is joke or some sort of museum or history website, using Soviet symbols is extremely frowned upon in the countries that used to belong to the union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols
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I'm sure that is true and sister reply rightfully pointed out the parallels to the nazi dictatorship. I personally find both rather distasteful, but I think that ironic usage would very well fall in the "joke" territory.