[epolanski]

Again, if it wasn't for the Soviet Union whole Europe would be speaking German today.

After ww2, the overwhelming majority of french people credited the soviet union as the major contributor to German defeat.

On top of that, the communist party was very important at the time of german occupation as it formed the core of the french resistance. Even today the french communist party still takes 2/3% of votes in elections, albeit a shade of the 20/30% it once had.

So obviously there are going to be french sympathetic to the soviet union due to historical reasons and some hardcore communists leftists.

On the other hand, there are 0 valid reasons to consider any use of the nazi flag sane and even barely comparable.

[zozbot234]

The same Soviet Union that had literally made a deal with the Nazis stipulating that each would let the other just take a big chunk of Europe? (of course the whole thing broke down when the Nazis attacked the Soviets at some point, but it very much was a thing.)

[epolanski]

Yes the same one.