@nprofile1q... not at all, no. The hammer and sickle, despite originating in the Soviet Union, isn't a soviet symbol, but a symbol of the working class. It represents socialism or its ideal goal communism. The Nazis started the holocaust, the Soviets ended it. That's the difference, and “more barbaric in their methods” aren't words I'd use to describe the Soviet Union. People's livelihoods from a mostly agrarian society improved to the point of the first man in space and the largest economy on earth.

The United States as a hegemon simply couldn't exist in a multipolar world, hence their necessity for proxy wars and the cold war. Especially today you should see the propaganda of the United States and it's media as clear as ever and possibly rethink whether the fact we were on their side for most of modern history was truly due to their good intentions, or out of fear and their propaganda. Now, if you recognize the United States for what they are, the imperial core, why do you choose to repeat their narrative? Because both sides can be bad? That's true, but if you truly believe that when it comes to the cold war, then you're just reinforcing this system whilst believing to be in opposition of it.