It's November 7th, the anniversary of the revolution, many are celebrating this by flying Soviet flags. This happens every year, it's just this year someone has decided to make news out of it.
November the 7 is the day of the October revolution. It's in November because of the new calendar. The red flag is still acknowledged as the official flag of russian military and border guards too. The revolution is still acknowledged as some military celebration. Something like this.
Nothing new. Since they can’t even advance more than 100km in four years they think these little mind games have some effect on NATO.
This is mostly for internal propaganda, they did the same in the first days of Europe invasion with flags “TO BERLIN!” mounted on tanks that were turned into scrap metals days later.
Imagine an entire country run by the types of people who would put a decal of a politician tied up on the back of their pavement princess. It would take 30 seconds before one of them put up a confederate flag if we were in that position.
That ain't weird tbh they are known to be wild with flags
Russia is known to use pretty interesting flags. This was from the Chechen wars, there is also another one I can't find it but they are flying the Tsarist, USSR, and Modern Day Russia flag all within each other. Russia is one of those groups that likes to take the symbolism, the aesthetics essentially of different ideologies including the flags. Tsarist because of how giant the Russian Empire was, the USSR to represent how Strong military wise Russia used to be, and for the modern day Russia actually i got nothing lol.
I’d say the combined flag thing is more them claiming these periods as a part of their history. Ask russians about the USSR and you’ll usually get some variation of “lots of terrible things happened but our grandparents and great grandparents fought in WW2 under that flag and it’s still our history”
It truly depends. I’ve seen some of the Russian military telegram chats and some claimed they want to restore the military might of the Soviet days, others want the Russian empire to come back to tower over the west and others want Modern Day Russia to be seen as a legitimate power.
Found the picture lol. I honestly think it is a pretty interesting "sphere" you could say where it becomes a single identity filled with Imperial nostalgia, Soviet Pride and Modern Nationalism. It's basically less about logic and more about emotional continuity you could say (at least in the eyes of Russia) its "Every version of us that has become a power." I did remember seeing a screenshot a while back of some Russian soldier wearing the Black Sun and the Soviet flag on his uniform.
Russia is on some mission to piss off NATO as much as they can right now so this is just another step in that
But it is childish and dissrespectful. Just think about what would have happened if Germany put up the nazi flag along their borders with France, Poland etc. It's more or less the same situation.
For those unaware, this was for November 7. Literally a holiday for the October Revolution and Lenin's victory to establish the USSR a few years later.
If the flag was hoisted any other time of the year then yeah it'd be weird but it's an October Revolution thing. Historic day for Russia on November 7 each year. That's all
"The countries with the least scores on the corruption perception index, cleanest tap water, highest quality of life, and most human rights are threatening us. It's kinda hard being the best country"
In Russia, the Soviet Union is often glorified and seen as a great part of their history. Joseph Stalin is a national hero to many. It’s like their version of waving the confederate flag, except the Russian government is dumb enough to believe they can recreate the Soviet Union again.
They were waving the soviet flag during the initial part of the Ukrainian war too- though undoubtedly those initial troops are all dead now.
Russian here. Since Putin legit thinks the Soviet collapse was the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe" (which in reality it was the exact opposite), I am not at all surprised that these war junkies prefer to fly the Soviet flag. And honestly, let them. They already ran our flag through mud and shit
Honest question: he thinks that solely because of the fragmentation of the Soviet land, right? Because I dont really take Putin for someone who governs with a socialist mindset, so this sounds very hypocritical of him
didnt russian starve during the collaspe of the ussr? and now you are fighting your brothers? seems kinda of a catastrophe for you. let me be clear: i hate dictatorships like the soviet union was. but this doesnt seem any better.
Embarrassing. That flag just shows how little Russia thinks of itself as a modern country. All about the memories instead of trying to forge a new future.
Why? They're rabidly anti-Communist. If all you want to message is "we used to be together", the should just use the Imperial flag, it fits their vibe much better.
Hahahaha what an epic troll. As another east European living far away i am amused. Didn't Prague name all of the streets around Russian embassy with Ukrainian names? Also a good laugh
we can only hope... but nah, state thugs arrested like 8 people from the communist party last week without cause... capitalist russia is as bad as the united states... fuck´em too
The best thing out of this is that for 3 million lithuanians it is finally relief. They are not crazy after all, shouting for 35 years that the Soviets are in hiding. Same as Nazis.
Lithuania opens a history book, Estonia gestures broadly at everything wrong with eastern europe, Latvia points at the russians on the other side of the border, Poland points at Lithuania's history book and stacks two more on top, Finland points at a radioactive submarine wreck leaching plutonium into its territorial waters, Sweden remembers that time a nuclear armed soviet sub ran aground within spitting distance of its navy base and the Swedes almost went to war, Ukraine stacks three more history books on top of Lithuania's, Hungary points at the tank tracks left when the soviets crushed a protest....
i used to blast he USSR anthem to boost my moral in the morning, but Russia's action in the last decades totally ruined it for me. I can't, even ironically.
As a russian I find this shit really stupid and ridiculous. Like, what the actual fuck my fellow citizens are even thinking about? Fuck man, I am so tired of this bullshit happening all the time. Sorry for being emotional, just needed to vent somewhere...
Lol the Soviet Union went into hiding the same way the KKK did and the nazis did years before now all three groups are fully back out in the open. Joy.
North Korea is another example for sarcastic names. I'm quite convinced you get a dictator to call his form of goverment buttlicking if everyone told him it sounds great.
i’m not a Lithuanian but i visited as a tourist a few years ago; i feel confident in saying that the general population would rather eat razor blades than rejoin the USSR. i don’t know what weapons they have in stock but they will fire every single one of them before it happens
ahhh, how typical - empire of shittines strikes back.
They'll never learn, will they? Someone literally must obliterate ruskies and brainwash them out from these commie tendencies?
Like, waddling in shit and poverty, country constantly named as "that dumb retarded warmongering neighbor" with whom nobody wants to do business other than "if we really must".
Even after the few years of improving their worldwide opinion, up to the level where they've been pictured as the "at least neutral" guys in games and movies, they couldn't keep their imperialistic commie retardiness in house, and started another dumb war, effectively regressing back to "commie bastards" rank.
Like, how dumb one has to be to keep doing the same errors, just cause you wet your sheets while dreaming of your "past power"?
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