[WikiEN-l] Re: new user

Tue Feb 15 21:35:49 UTC 2005

> The hammer and sickle has much wider acceptance.  It's still the symbol of
> Aeroflot, it's a popular design on t-shirts and the like, and variants
> incorporating the hammer and sickle or other work-related symbols (spade,
> torch and hoe in the case of the British Labour Party's old symbol) have
> enjoyed considerable popularity and virtually no controversy.  The regime
> was murderous but the ideals it traded on were not.

I'm sure you can find millions of kulaks who would politely disagree
with you.  No, wait, you won't -- they all starved to death.