Russian singer Evgeny Nikitin cancels Germany appearance due to swastika tattoo

[G3rman]

[QUOTE=King Tiger;36911317]I guess if you don't like freedom of speech then it might put you at ease.[/QUOTE]

Believe me, the Fascist party still gets its say. This isn't America, different things happen over here, surprisingly. Different people, different culture, different viewpoints.

I have no doubt that eventually the ban will be uplifted, but until Germans can grow out of the phobia of Hitler and Facism's shadow and the rest of the world learns to stop associating all of Germany with Hitler, it keeps the peace.

[King Tiger]

[QUOTE=G3rman;36911459]and the rest of the world learns to stop associating all of Germany with Hitler, it keeps the peace.[/QUOTE]

Oh that's what you've been waiting for? Well good thing we all stopped associating Germany with Hitler since forever.

[Nitoliskus]

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Other then the swastika. That looks like it may be a pretty cool tattoo.

[G3rman]

[QUOTE=King Tiger;36911572]Oh that's what you've been waiting for? Well good thing we all stopped associating Germany with Hitler since forever.[/QUOTE]

Right..try asking any teenager from America about Germany and find out the first thing that comes to their mind. Hitler.

The thing Germany has been remembered for in most recent times, around the world, is the Third Reich. We are still working out of the stigma as new generations come along, but the constitution and the old guard remain in the government. That is why this continues.

[thisispain]

[QUOTE=G3rman;36911645]Right..try asking any teenager from America about Germany and find out the first thing that comes to their mind. Hitler.[/QUOTE]

no sometimes it's beer or sausage

[G3rman]

[QUOTE=thisispain;36911696]no sometimes it's beer or sausage[/QUOTE]

Which we make with love and care.

[Killuah]

[QUOTE=DireAvenger;36908937]I still don't get how it's been over 70 years since the second world war and Germany is STILL sore about the whole nazi thing.

God, there's remembrance, and then there's... THAT.[/QUOTE]

My grandfather was in the army and came back from Russian war-imprisonment in a quarry in 1949, barely surviving, so yes, it still IS a big thing and that's good. It should never be a "small thing"

[Pierrewithahat]

[QUOTE=G71tc4;36909024]he was shirtless in those pictures...[/QUOTE]

Yeah when he was drumming in his metal band, I hardly imagine he's gonna strip off mid opera.

[Killuah]

[QUOTE=King Tiger;36910350]What does banning Swastikas/Nazi imagery accomplish?[/QUOTE]

It's a symbolic move.

[Svartr]

I don't exactly condone anyone getting a Swastika tattoo, especially those who do it to be 'cool'.
But people are so bitter about the symbol, unfortunately now it is no longer seen as a symbol for positive things as it would have been to the pre-WW2 years.
It's as though the Germans are scared of the symbol, like a deep regret and fear.

[Animosus]

I think people are forgetting, that long before the Nazis existed the Swastika was, and still is, the Hindu symbol of peace.