I for one wouldn't care if it was Nazi poster OR Communist posters...and I'm both Jewish who had family lost in one of the camps in WWII AND I'm right leaning. It's not like they're advocating for what was done by any of those groups, unless you saw something I didn't (and I highly doubt that). Once the meaning was explained to them (assuming he really didn't know, I never make assumptions on other peoples knowledge), THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IT!!! It only needed to be explained ONCE. If it gets left in, that's neither your decision nor your problem...there's hundreds if not thousands of games on this site. Regardless of how offensive or inoffensive symbols are, there is no reason for them to be wiped off the face of the earth. Bad enough history being taught in schools is getting more and more sanitized so it doesn't "offend" anyone (yes I fully agree with the snowflake comment). The less history gets taught, the more the mistakes and tragedies get repeated.
I missed this reply when you first posted it and saw it now as I was browsing the thread again - I don't really disagree with you. As I even said in the post you were replying to, from what I read the dev seemed to be very charitable to the critics and agreed to replace the imperial flag as recently as the next update - if people kept pestering them about it repeatedly that's just dumb, impolite and pedantic tbh. I was against the snowflakes comment only in the sense that people need to be made aware of the history behind symbols and ideas they endorse/present, and the act of informing them of that doth not make a snowflake... But yeah, of course it's the dev's right to do whatever they want with their game, including keeping symbols of oppression if they wanted to - it's their fucking game and you can always not download/move on if you don't like the ideas espoused within.
Honestly, I think we both misunderstood each other a bit - I probably misinterpreted the snowflakes comment, seeing as some people complained more than once about the flag and the original comment most likely referred to them, and you seem to have misunderstood my position as wanting to ban all symbols of oppression, as you argued against me in this post that "there is no reason for them to be wiped off the face of the earth." I never said there is, and even though I'm a leftist I am a strong advocate of actually not just showing the symbols, but teaching in schools the ideologies of relevant modern political factions and schools of thought with direct quotes from defining texts (such as Marx's "Das Kapital" or Kropotkin's "The Conquest of Bread" for communism and anarcho-communism, or stuff like the "Doctrine of Fascism" by Giovanni Gentile for fascism) as well as crimes of war committed by both one's home country and foreign empires/regimes that claimed to follow any modern ideology, as this approach would make political propaganda less effective and equip pupils with the tools to better understand radical ideas and politics as a whole themselves, as opposed to just taking the approach of demonizing without explanation all forms of "political extremism" (as sadly many history books do) or only ever addressing "inoffensive" content, both of which only breed ignorance into society...
Long story short, we probably agree more than we disagree on this topic so I'll give you a like and apologize for not seeing and answering this sooner!
Cheers my tentacled friend!