Why is only nazi imagery prohibited...

[Coca-Cola]

...in sigs and avatars. I would also like any pro communist propaganda and leading figure heads, etc, not allowed to be displayed in sigs and avatars. I find that there is too much of a bias when it comes to the nazis in comparison to the communist. To summarize their history very briefly; they were very much like the nazis in the way that they were constantly killing/sending people to work in camps until they worked to death. They caused just as much grief(more most likerly) to their people whom they called, oh so lovingly, the masses. However unlike the nazis they were allowed to keep on killing for longer while keeping the masses contained and robbing them of thoughts to seek help with the KGB(SS if you will). In the end they did kill more people than the nazis, the Holodomor being one of their spikes in numbers of killed, but since they didn't kill them all in one fell swoop and hid it for many years until most of people personally affected were either dead or old, I guess that makes it acceptable.

This has bugged me for quite a while and I just wanted to get it off my chest.

[~Merrick]

There was no one in history like the Nazis. The crimes against humanity were soo horrific, it was the reasons for a World War to happen.

I can't remember another time history where the eradication of over one million people happened. Communism is not the cause of countries "working" their people to death.

There is a SEVERE difference between between not allowing Nazi symbolism and allowing communistic symbolism on these forums.

[ConstanceJill]

Anyway, why not prohibiting just any political figures ?
And as far as I know, the WWII was not because of the nazi leader's crimes against humanity, but because of his will of conquering the world. I doubt anyone would have declared war against him only for crimes against humanity at this time.

[Zamamee]

Why not ban images of George W. Bush? He started a war arbitrarily on false pretenses and people still getting killed to this day because of it...not quite in the millions, but it's unfair all the same.

[ConstanceJill]

Yeah, why not ?
As I said, any politics ... these are only good to make people argue anyway.

[Rikupsoni]

I can symphatize to all peoples who were destroyed and made as slaves as my contry has been twice under Stalinist aggression. For example, Soviet Union finished off Ingrian Finns, Samis from their area, significantly weakened Karelian populations from areas near me. Holdomor..

However, it is said that Nazi imaginery is not up for debate eventhough many of us don't agree on it, including me.

Per this request though, one rule could be extended over communist leaders.

- No pictures showing leading figureheads of the Nazi regime (this does not include army commanders such as Field Marshall Rommel or Admiral Dönitz)

Stalin, the murderer of ~60,000,000 people is still fine? V. Molotov? The other side of the pact, Ribbentrop, was sentenced to death as Nazi war criminal. It would sicken me to see someone promoting Stalin or Molotov in his avatar / signature, so I don't see any reason why they should not be banned if Nazi leaders are. If Nazi prohibitions are kept, I'm all for prohibitions on these things.

[masked_marsoe]

I believe the rule is due to German law (and other countries?) on the display of Nazi imagery.

As far as I am aware, there is no similar law for Soviet/Khmer Rouge/fascist etc leaders, and as such, there's no similar forum rule.

[ConstanceJill]

Makes sense... yet, even if there is no such law in a country, the admins may set it up here anyway... if they wish.

[Admiral Donutz]

Well the official reason is that the nazi's are widely known for their wrongdoings and the soviet union much less. People will see a swastika and link it to "nazis" and link that to "mass murder" but if they see a hammer and sickle they will link it to "communism" and that is all.

As for nazism and communism. The nazis believed in a superior race and that purification was needed. Communism itself is harmless, it promotes equality etc. (whether you think this is stupid bullshit, a nice but impossible idea or an achievable target is up to you) but the countries that adopted communism kinda dropped communism after the dictatorship of the proletariat. Moreover in communism there are no elite people or an elite race. So mass murder would not be something Karl Marx would suggest.

One would need to request a ban on Soviet Union symbols then and Nazi Germany symbols. But again, most people don't link the SU to something that is worse then nazi Germany.

This forum rule is not their because of German law on Swastika's. It's there for the above reason (the general public dislikes nazism and swastikas). In my personal opinion the downside is that this also restricts people with an historic intrest in nazi Germany or people who wish to use a non-nazi Swastika. But filtering out a "racist" use of a swastika from "historic intrest" would be very hard if not impossible.

[Bs|Archaon]

As ^ said, Communism is pretty much harmless (to people, anyway...politics and economics are another matter entirely). The countries and people who used Communism to carry out atrocities were the danger.