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Name 5, without looking it up.
USSR, DPRK, DPRC, Nazi Germany, Italy under Mussolini
EDIT:
Flag-burning should never be a crime wherever freedom of speech is a right.
If I disagree with my country, I have every right to mutilate and desecrate the flag in any way, shape, or form I want. There is nothing holy or sacred about a flag, nothing that makes the destruction of one an irredeemable, intolerable sin. Destroying the flag is a statement, just as raising a flag is. A flag is a symbol, and a symbol is only what you make it out to be. Nothing more, nothing less.
I choose to respect and love my flag; others may choose to hate it and tear it down, and that is their right. If I take away that right, then in doing so, I'd lose my right to love and display my flag. After all, if burning a flag disturbs me so much that I ban it, then doesn't the other guy have just as much right to ban my flag because it disturbs him?
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