@WNYmathGuy Yes. But more than most governments, the RSFSR and USSR stood for mass murder and slavery of dissidents from the beginning until the end.
I don't want to defend nation states, but most of them did not slaughter and enslave millions of their inhabitants because they had an other opinion.
If someone today uses a flag of a country, it is either because they want to indicate where they are geographically, because they want to indicate what language they speak, because they want to support a sports team or because they are nationalists and want to exclude others.
☭ Doesn't stand for an existing country, language or sports team. It stands for an ideology that is based on opression.
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@tastytea Even if they do not want to kill, torture, and/or oppress you or me or anyone, they still seem to fancy some kind of centralized and/or authoritarian socialism, which boils down to the same thing, at least the oppression part.