In France for example, if you carry a nazi flag, you get booed and arrested. But if you carry a soviet flag, you get celebrated.

In some Eastern countries, it may be the opposite.

So it depends on cultural sensitivity (aka who holds the power).

> But if you carry a soviet flag, you get celebrated.

1. You ain't gonna be celebrated. But you ain't gonna be bothered either. Also, I think most people can't even distinguish the flag of the USSR from a generic communist one.

2. Of course you will get your s*t beaten out by going around with a Nazi flag, not just booed. How can you think that's a normal thing to do or a matter of "opinion"? You can put them in the same basket all you want, but only one of those two dictatorships aimed for the physical cleansing of entire groups of people and enslavement of others.

3. The French were allied to the Soviet Union in World War 2 while the Germans were the enemies.

4. 80%+ of Germans died on the eastern front, without the Soviet Union heroic effort and resistance we'd all be speaking German in Europe today. The allies landed in Europe in june 44, very late. That's 3 years after the battle of Moscow, 2 years after Stalingrad and 1 year after the Battle of Kursk.