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A small note – not the stuff of headlines, obviously – appeared in the newspapers on 3 February. In response to a call for the [[prohibition]] of the [[public]] display of the [[swastika]] and other [[Nazi]] [[symbol]]s, a group of [[conservative]] members of the [[Europe]]an Parliament, mostly from ex-[[Communist]] countries, demanded that the same apply to [[Communist]] [[symbol]]s: not only the hammer and sickle, but even the red star. This proposal should not be dismissed lightly: it suggests a deep change in [[Europe]]’s [[ideological]] [[identity]].