{"id":47137,"date":"2022-04-19T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47137"},"modified":"2022-04-21T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T18:03:13","slug":"the-russians-raise-a-flag-of-the-soviet-dictatorship-in-the-ukrainian-city-of-kherson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/19\/the-russians-raise-a-flag-of-the-soviet-dictatorship-in-the-ukrainian-city-of-kherson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russians raise a flag of the Soviet dictatorship in the Ukrainian city of Kherson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Putin regime has not hidden its nostalgia for the Soviet dictatorship for a long time, but this is making it even more evident in the invasion of Ukraine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/01\/29\/putin-comes-to-the-rescue-of-communism-he-wants-to-ban-equating-the-ussr-with-nazism\/\">Putin comes to the rescue of communism: he wants to ban equating the USSR with nazism<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/01\/the-alliance-of-pro-russian-communists-and-nazis-fighting-against-ukraine-in-donbas\/\">The alliance of pro-Russian communists and nazis fighting against Ukraine in Donbas<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The latest episode of Soviet nostalgia has been captured in a video released in the last hours and showing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKRWarSitRep\/status\/1516413967320719362\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russian soldiers raising a communist flag in the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine<\/a>, after its occupation by the invaders at the beginning of March. The place where these images were recorded is Park Slavy (Glory Park), also known as Arestanka by the locals. <strong>On the mast in question, a Ukrainian flag was previously hoisted:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vyys4z\/?pub=ck0k2\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><big>An act to reaffirm the Russian hoax of the \"denazification\" of Ukraine<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>The communist flag raised by the Russian military is the so-called \"Victory Banner\"<\/strong>, used by the 79th Rifle Corps of the Red Army in World War II and which was raised by the Soviets at the Reichstag building in Berlin on 1 May 1945. Thus, t<strong>his act not only serves to praise communism, but also to reaffirm the Russian hoax of the \"denazification\" of Ukraine<\/strong>, an infamous slogan that the Kremlin has used to invade that country and commit all kinds of war crimes. That \"Victory Banner\", along with other symbols of the Soviet dictatorship, <strong>is displayed by the Russian Armed Forces in the May 9 parades<\/strong> to commemorate the defeat of Germany.<\/p>\n<p><big>Crimes committed by the Soviets<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that <strong>this flag has been used to whitewash the crimes committed by the Soviets in the countries they occupied<\/strong>, from the imposition of communist dictatorships on them, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/03\/02\/uroczysko-baran-the-forgotten-soviet-massacre-of-many-poles-who-fought-against-the-nazism\/\">the murder by the Soviets of Polish prisoners who had fought against the nazis<\/a>, without forgetting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/03\/08\/communist-machismo-the-mass-rape-of-women-and-girls-by-soldiers-of-the-red-army\/\">the mass rapes of women and girls by Red Army soldiers<\/a>, even in those countries they were supposed to \"liberate\", as was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/07\/16\/asi-fue-la-liberacion-de-polonia-por-el-ejercito-rojo-la-violacion-en-masa-de-ninas-y-mujeres\/\">the case of Poland<\/a>. Let us also remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2021\/11\/27\/holodomor-a-documentary-in-english-about-the-genocide-that-communism-did-in-ukraine\/\">the Soviet dictatorship was the author of the Ukrainian genocide, the Holodomor<\/a>, in which between 3.9 and 6 million Ukrainians died in a famine unleashed by the Stalin regime. <strong>Raising such a flag in Ukraine is the height of infamy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Putin regime has not hidden its nostalgia for the Soviet dictatorship for a long time, but this is making it even more evident in the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10373],"tags":[10444,16426,10731,16153,15307,10452],"class_list":["post-47137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-communism","tag-kherson","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine","tag-ussr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}