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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Safe to say that banning the symbol of the people that defeated the Nazis probably makes you a Nazi

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well their air force flags literally still have swastikas in them. But no, hammers and sickles are the problem! Nazi scum nation.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fluffly sonnenrad lmao. Also why the hell there is even crown there

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The whites really wanted to have a king, but weren't allowed (because the Germans lost WW1). So they still simp for their imaginary king.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think it was more that the German noble they wanted to be king declined because he thought that having a German monarch after Germany just got owned in WW1 would probably not be the best way to start a new nation state. I think they even kicked around the idea of making some Finnish politician king instead

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A certain intelligence community has been hard at work minimizing the contribution of the Soviets to ending WW2. It's gotten so bad, I expect the next WW2 era first person shooter won't be having a Russian campaign this time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.