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[Marburg]

I just wanted to add that there's not much difference in using the south flag and using the war flag of the communist regime which btw enslaved millions of people in their working camps....
The sirius coalition is using this communist symbol so i don't see your piont...

http://discoverygc.com/wiki/File:CoalitionArms.png

The hammer & sickle has never struck me as a racist symbol, but in a pinch, I'd say that if it promotes hate in lieu of nostalgia in that part of the world, then it has to go in order to remain fair...but the fact of the matter is, I've never been there & I'm flat-out ignorant of russian race relations.

That's actually why it gets frustrating when the issue pops up. On occasion when someone slaps up a swastika, people go nuts about it. It's so commonly reviled, that those that don't denounce it can get railed on just as hard as the guy that slapped it up in the first place. The confederate flag just doesn't generate that level of popular reflex animosity from people all over the world, so it's not as easy to clarify to outsiders how much overt & seething hatred the thing generates from both sides.

All I'm saying is that to allow one while disallowing another just ain't right imho...it simply needs to be all or nothin'

I know it's purely an aesthetic choice on your part & not a racist one, but when a person flies a hate symbol here, it sets the whole place in a bad light, unintentional as it may be. I can't tell you not to fly it, so all I want is for you to think about the reasons why I'm here asking you not to.

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