{"id":47177,"date":"2022-04-22T19:40:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=47177"},"modified":"2025-04-22T00:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T22:29:15","slug":"soviet-flags-and-a-statue-of-lenin-the-russian-communist-paraphernalia-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/22\/soviet-flags-and-a-statue-of-lenin-the-russian-communist-paraphernalia-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet flags and a statue of Lenin: the Russian communist paraphernalia in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\"Putin is not a communist.\" It is one of the most repeated phrases by his admirers in the West. But once again, reality is more stubborn than them.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/01\/23\/ten-facts-right-wing-people-who-sympathize-with-vladimir-putin-seem-to-ignore\/\">Ten facts right-wing people who sympathize with Vladimir Putin seem to ignore<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<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><\/p>\n<p>Three months ago we already saw here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/01\/23\/ten-facts-right-wing-people-who-sympathize-with-vladimir-putin-seem-to-ignore\/\">Putin's scandalous nods to communism and his refusal to condemn the crimes of communist dictatorships<\/a>. The Russian dictator is a nostalgic for the Soviet Union, he has established various laws in Russia to shield this totalitarian movement from criticism for its atrocities and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Agkjw\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has even defended the communist dictator and genocide Stalin<\/a>, stating that demonizing him is <em>\"a way of attacking to the Soviet Union and Russia.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><big>A Russian tank with a communist flag in southern Ukraine<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been accompanied by gestures of longing for the Soviet dictatorship. In the first hours of the invasion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/02\/25\/a-russian-army-tank-advances-through-ukraine-waving-a-soviet-flag\/\">a Russian tank was seen waving a communist flag<\/a> on the R-47 highway, near its passage through the Dnieper River, in southern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yxtf0hRKR6s\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><big>Russian soldiers raise a communist flag in Kherson<\/big><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/19\/the-russians-raise-a-flag-of-the-soviet-dictatorship-in-the-ukrainian-city-of-kherson\/\">Russian military raised a communist flag in the Ukrainian city of Kherson<\/a> (below these lines), specifically in the Park Slavy (Park of Glory). Western supporters of Putin always dismiss these events as isolated cases, propaganda or even fake news, but <strong>more evidence keeps coming.<\/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>Russians raise communist flags in front of the Nova Kakhovka town hall<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In the last few hours, through its channel on the Russian portal Yandex, <a href=\"https:\/\/zen.yandex.ru\/media\/russian.rt.com\/v-novoi-kahovke-hersonskaia-oblast-podniali-znamia-pobedy-flagi-rossii-i-sssr-6262a68ea8b4273af72461d2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Kremin RT propaganda outlet has reported the raising of Soviet flags in the Ukrainian city of Nova Kakhovka<\/a>, in the Kherson oblast, occupied by the Russians.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52020937867_93126a02de_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RT has published these two images taken on Dniprovskyi Avenue, between the City Hall and the Palace of Culture of that city. Next to the town hall there were <strong>three flagpoles on which two Ukrainian flags and the city flag were hoisted: now they are occupied by the Russian flag and two communist flags<\/strong>, the former Soviet Union flag and the so-called victory flag.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52020937872_62434f1a61_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/0qPl2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Russian blogger has posted yet another photo<\/a> of the city of Nova Kakhovka occupied by Russian troops. In it we see <strong>the aforementioned communist flags<\/strong> (the Russian flag, smaller than the Soviet one, is not seen)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52020937842_220e609f17_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><big>A statue of Lenin has been installed in Melitopol<\/big><\/p>\n<p>That same blogger adds: <strong><em>\"Also, Ilyich returned to Melitopol for his birthday.\"<\/em><\/strong> He shows a small statue of Lenin recently installed in this city also occupied by the Russians since March 1.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52020937882_8b2df556ef_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ipress.ua\/ru\/news\/v_melytopole_za_2_chasa_demontyrovaly_3_pamyatnyka_lenyna_126353.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In Melitopol, in the Zaporizhia oblast, there were three monuments dedicated to that Soviet dictator, but they were removed in 2019.<\/a> A Ukrainian media <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/riamelitopol\/52117\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has confirmed<\/a> the placement of that statue this Friday, specifically on Getmanskaya street, where until 3 years ago it was one of the monuments to Lenin. <strong>Now all that remains is that Western fans of Putin tell us again that these are all isolated cases, NATO propaganda or fake news.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00abPutin is not a communist.\u00bb It is one of the most repeated phrases by his admirers in the West. But once again, reality is more stubborn than them.<\/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":[19536,10373],"tags":[10444,16426,16458,16459,10731,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-47177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-communism","tag-kherson","tag-melitopol","tag-nova-kakhovka","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47177"}],"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=47177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}