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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

did china shoot children recently?

I dont get it.

[-] unnecessarygoat@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

i think its meant to be a ussr flag

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

russia is not close to being the ussr since the early 90s though

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe -1 points 1 year ago

He didn't say they were.

He said the Russian flag is apparently based on the Soviet flag.

Have you seen the Russian Federation flag?

Hint: it'd be hard to get them confused.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they are completely different flags

Yes...

That's the point.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 points 1 year ago

It's weird how people across the political spectrum think they're still the USSR

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

TBF, it's not like modern Russia particularly objects to the idea

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It very much does.

I think people tend to confuse Russian irredentism with wanting to bring back communism when all they really want is the USSR's borders. Which were, mind you, largely the Russian Empire's borders.

If the Russian oligarchy is going to force a return to their roots I feel like they'd just bring back the monarchy.

There certainly is a socialist movement in Russia that wouldn't mind returning to a socialist state but there are very few who actually want to return to a totalitarian one, and if it's not totalitarian it's not really what people mean by the USSR, is it?

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I was talking more about wanting the prestige back

[-] uis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

it's not like modern Russia particularly objects to the idea

Here is correction for you: it's not like Putin objects to the image of empire.

But he don't want everything else that came with USSR like good schools, good hospitals, good wages for teachers and doctors, housing for everyone. Because money spent on anything above is money not spent on his yacht.

[-] uis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

USSR was 15 countries including Ukraine.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

I mean, yes, definitely they have. But they were probably Uyghurs or something so sympathizers don't mind.

this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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