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Of course all governments murder, but that’s usually because there is a war. Not all governments murder their own citizens to the tune of 100 million plus in pursuit of a failed ideology. 

That logic applies to the swastika too.

The Rising Sun or The Meatball as my Marine Gramps used to call, it isn’t on Twitter so irrelevant.

The Hammer and Sickle represents an ideology that was originally well intended but was soon hiijacked  by psychopaths the world over. It represents an ideology, not just a country.

The Union Jack represents an Union of four countries, all three of which were invaded(two successfully) by the English who in turn were occupied and colonized by the Normans. I cannot think of a flag more illustrative of the complex and breadth of history than the Union Jack. But I completely understand why some do not like it as I do with Stars and Stripes which also reflects a complicated past.

You have a point in regards to flags. But my point was how can they ban the Swastika but allow that of other   violently repressive ideologies? It reflects our tendency to ignore or excuse one groups crimes whilst focusing on those of another.

Your view of killing in war depends on the circumstances and your point of view.  Are you the aggressor nation (like Germany and Soviet Union invading Poland; like Japan invading China)?  Are you the victim nation?  Are you attacking another nation to help a victim nation?  Depends on which nation you are, how you see things, and all can be seen though cynical lenses.

However, there is also the aspect of governments killing their own people.  Concentration camps, genocides, and politically motivated mass starvations.  A lot of the large-magnitude ones are communist regimes killing large numbers of their own people.  See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes Soviet gulags, purges, politically motivated mass starvations, etc., est. 10-20M people in total; People's Republic of China's labor camps, politically motivated famine, mass murders during the Cultural Revolution, est. 50-70M in total; Pol Pot's Cambodian killing fields, North Korea, etc.  Then, of course, all the people killed by the Nazis (not communist, but socialist).

Every nation and every surviving tribe of mankind has killed others along the way.  Every single one.  America is no exception.  But to equate the Stars and Stripes in this regard with the hammer and sickle or with the swastika is to have no grasp of historical magnitude.

Swastika didn’t have a blue water navy and thus could not touch the Stars and Stripes.

Also the Soviets help create the Wehrmacht. Classic example of blowback.

People forget that hammer and sickle and swastika were allies at the start of WWII in Europe, with a pact to co-invade and divide up Europe.  That's why the Soviets and Germans both invaded Poland and divided it between them.

But soon, the Nazis stabbed Stalin in the back and invaded the Soviet Union.  That caused the Soviet Union, of course, to switch sides.

Most of the fighting and dying in Europe (like 80% of it) was between Germany and the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union perhaps could have eventually handled Germany on its own.  But if Germany didn't have to worry about the other allies at all, who knows how it would have gone?