I know it's a beautiful song, but unfortunately it did become associated with the very communist criminalities that you named. If you were a child in a communist country before 1989, you were forced to sing the song, and it became a symbol that time can't erase. It's a mistake to play with symbols. I know that these idiots who live around me that actually drive around with little confederate flags on their cars couldn't answer any real question about the confederacy or the civil war, but displaying that symbol does mean something to somebody. It causes some people real pain, generally people who don't deserve more pain. In this case I think that the public good is served by being sensitve to the real feelings of a significant group of people, not by having the majority recklessly get their way by intent or indifference.

Chet W.