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speechlesstx
Oct 26, 2012, 07:27 AM
For a little change of pace, check out the Europe4all poster that's been hanging at the European Commission in Brussels.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2012/10/IMG_61011.jpg



Don't see it? Look again...







http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Close-up.png

Yes, let's coexist on the same star with one of the most brutal regimes ever conceived, represented by the hammer and sickle.


For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags. For hundreds of millions of Europeans, it was a symbol of foreign occupation. Hungary, Lithuania and Moldova have banned its use, and various former communist countries want it to be treated in the same way as Nazi insignia.

Yet here it sits on a poster in the European Commission, advertising the moral deafness of its author (I hope that's what it is, rather than lingering nostalgia). The Bolshevist sigil celebrates the ideology which, in strict numerical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ever devised by our species. That it can be passed unremarked day after day in the corridors of Brussels is nauseating.

You can't make this stuff up.

NeedKarma
Oct 26, 2012, 07:29 AM
So?

speechlesstx
Oct 26, 2012, 07:33 AM
I see you suffer from moral deafness, too.

NeedKarma
Oct 26, 2012, 07:36 AM
How does that poster affect your morals? Anyone's morals? How does it affect your life in any way, shape or form?

speechlesstx
Oct 26, 2012, 08:33 AM
You're right, I have no idea why anyone would take offense (http://latvia50yrs.thecelotajs.com/Latvia-50-Years-of-Terror-and-Tyranny/Soviet-%E2%80%9CYear-of-Atrocities%E2%80%9D.php) at embracing such a symbol in the name of tolerance.

NeedKarma
Oct 26, 2012, 09:05 AM
I guess you'd better contact the people that made that.

speechlesstx
Oct 26, 2012, 09:15 AM
I think maybe you might want to see a cardiologist.

tomder55
Oct 28, 2012, 02:26 AM
The wrong section of the star is highlighted . More revealing is that the hammer and sickle is at the apex of the star.

speechlesstx
Oct 28, 2012, 06:53 AM
I think the yin yang thingy is the only with more representation. Had to balance things I suppose.

excon
Oct 28, 2012, 07:13 AM
Hello Steve:

Didja see the Chinese pagoda? They're commies, aren't they? Didn't Mao kill a few of his fellowmen? And, why is the Star of David BIGGER than the cross? And, what about those Muslims? Aren't they our ENEMY?

excon

speechlesstx
Oct 28, 2012, 07:51 AM
A far as I know no one has committed atrocities under the banner of a pagoda or the Star of David. I know would have riled the left though...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Battle_flag_of_the_US_Confederacy.svg/200px-Battle_flag_of_the_US_Confederacy.svg.png

paraclete
Oct 28, 2012, 02:23 PM
I don't know of any that were committed under this one either but there might have been some committed in the name of the Confederacy. In that European representation of unity I would be concerned about the promenence given to Islamic, Buddhist and communist symbolism as well as symbolism of a religious nature that have no place in Europe

paraclete
Oct 28, 2012, 02:49 PM
You were didturbed by the original depiction, try this one as a symbol of Europen unity it disturbs me greatly because it gives undue prominence to both Islamic and Communist symbolism

speechlesstx
Oct 28, 2012, 07:30 PM
That one is just creepy.