Here's why: A series of photos shared on social media appears to show a man in Mariupol, Ukraine, swapping out a dilapidated blue and yellow Ukrainian flag hanging from an industrial building with the ...
At a small exhibit at the National History Museum in Kyiv on Ukraine’s flag, one notices something particular about the flags from the Soviet times and early days of independence: they’re homemade — ...
Russian soldiers have begun raising Soviet-era flags in recently occupied areas of Ukraine. On April 19 in the southern city of Kherson, troops from a Rosgvardia police unit hoisted the red "banner of ...
Contrary to online claims, a collage showing a Ukrainian flag being removed and a flag of the Soviet Union raised on a flagpole does not depict a recent scene in Mariupol during the Russian invasion ...
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Recent photos show Russia's Soviet past becoming mainstreamed as a rallying point for invading troops in Ukraine as the Kremlin's objectives become increasingly vague. The above image is the latest of ...
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Communist Party supporters laid flowers at Stalin’s grave in Moscow this month, marking the anniversary of his birth. Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times ...