So should you guys. The hammer and sickle is almost entirely associated with communist Soviet Union and transplanted to other communist states like China and North Korea etc. Whereas thr Swastika yes in that orientation and banner is excluisve to Fasicst Germany but was a historical symbol for thousands of years and to this day swastikas are still in use in India, Pakistan, Thailand, Bangladesh, Nepal etc.
To somehow think the Nazi swastika is more reprehensible than the hammer and sickle which still to this day has hundreds of thousands of North Koreans in gulags, the Soviets killed almost 2 million plus Afghanistan civilians flying the hammer and sickle.
Call it for what it really is, a bunch of Americans afriad that their alt right movement will co-opt it and troll users online rather than any attempt to deflect as saying that the Soviet Union was any less reprehensible than Fascist Germany in killing millions and trying to enslave and conquee the globe. East and South Asians are still stuck with the fruits of Communist Soviet Union with China and North Korea existing to this day.
But it is what it is. Let people play as some Iron Cross Wehrmacht or whatever because out of sight, out of mind has always worked. Maybe we should just call Hitler 'he who must not be named' in the game as well.