Evocative symbols of Europe's troubled past,such as the swastika, have long been illegal in a number of countries across the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Consumers also want computers and cell phones, but in cities, these are no longer status symbols.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

"I can understand that people who actually lived at that time, in the communist era, who were hurt by this system it might upset them to see young people who might have basically no knowledge about this system and didn't live in that, wearing the symbols they don't understand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16