COOL RUSSIAN BAR IN NYC FOR SOME REASON MAKES LIGHT OF THE SOVIET ERA

NO ONE WOULD EMBELLISH A GERMAN RESTAURANT WITH A SWASTIKA.

BUT AN OTHERWISE COOL RUSSIAN BAR AND RESTAURANT IN THE FLATIRON DISTRICT OF NYC USES THE HAMMER AND SICKLE AS FUN/COOL DECORATION:

THE USSR WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF TENS OF MILLIONS AND WAS AN ABOMINABLE TOTALITARIAN REGIME WITH GULAGS, NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR RELIGION AND MASSIVE CORRUPTION AND MASSIVE POLLUTION.

NOTHING ABOUT IT IS CHIC, COOL, OR FUN IN MY BOOK.

SOME PEOPLE MIGHT DISAGREE.

THEY ARE WRONG.