CardanoKarma

There were two types of uniforms at the White House Halloween celebration this Thursday: American and russian Soviet uniforms featuring the hammer and sickle. I don’t know if Americans realize this, but Soviet symbols are banned in many European countries that were formerly under Soviet rule. The Soviet regime was responsible for immense suffering, mass deaths, famine, deportations, torture, and concentration camps. Its crimes were comparable in scale and brutality to those committed by the Nazis. For many people who lived under this regime, or whose families suffered because of it, seeing the hammer and sickle is as horrifying as seeing a swastika or a Third Reich uniform.