{"id":48508,"date":"2022-09-08T16:57:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T14:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48508"},"modified":"2024-09-08T00:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:09:36","slug":"lowering-a-communist-flag-symbolic-images-of-the-ukrainian-counteroffensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/08\/lowering-a-communist-flag-symbolic-images-of-the-ukrainian-counteroffensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowering a communist flag: symbolic images of the Ukrainian counteroffensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The military counteroffensive launched by Ukraine in the Kherson region a few days ago had one of its most successful days on Wednesday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/22\/soviet-flags-and-a-statue-of-lenin-the-russian-communist-paraphernalia-in-ukraine\/\">Soviet flags and a statue of Lenin: the Russian communist paraphernalia in Ukraine<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><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\/\">The Russians raise a flag of the Soviet dictatorship in the Ukrainian city of Kherson<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>One of the days with the most losses for the Russian invaders<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In the framework of this counteroffensive, images of Ukrainian ambushes against the invading forces and Russian soldiers being captured by the Ukrainians have proliferated on social networks. Also, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rebel44CZ\/status\/1567622172444590087\/photo\/1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia yesterday suffered one of its days with the most material losses of these six months of invasion<\/a>: <strong>12 tanks, 12 armored vehicles, 19 infantry fighting vehicles<\/strong>, a command vehicle, a pontoon bridge, 6 artillery pieces, 3 multiple rocket launchers and other vehicles, in addition to <strong>a Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft<\/strong>. These are verified losses with images by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oryxspioenkop.com\/2022\/02\/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oryxspioenkop.com<\/a>. If every day were like this for Russia, Putin would end up running out of armed forces.<\/p>\n<p><big>The symbolic scene recorded in the liberated town of Nova Husarivka<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Among the images of the Ukrainian counteroffensive released yesterday there is a particularly symbolic one. In it we see <strong>soldiers of the 1st Special Purpose Separate Brigade of the Ukrainian Army in the town of Nova Husarivka<\/strong>, liberated this Wednesday and which is a district of the Balakliya municipality, in the Kherson region. In the video we see two soldiers from that brigade <strong>lowering a communist flag hoisted next to a building in that town<\/strong> (at the end of the video a sign appears in Ukrainian indicating that it is <strong>the headquarters of the District of Nova Husarivka<\/strong>, of the Municipality of Balaklita, in the Kherson region, along with its opening hours to the public). <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TarasBerezovets\/status\/1567508688830619651\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The video was posted yesterday by Ukrainian journalist Taras Berezovets<\/a>, who is now official of the said brigade:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arriando una bandera comunista en Ucrania\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CyyNQq8lpE0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Berezovets published yesterday a photo in which he and another Ukrainian soldier pose <strong>showing this war trophy<\/strong>, a replica of the Red Army's 150th Division, known in Russia as the \"Victory Banner\" for having been hoisted above the Reichstag in Berlin on May 1, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52343334064_7fc0cbdd68_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Kherson region, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/22\/soviet-flags-and-a-statue-of-lenin-the-communist-paraphernalia-of -the-russians-in-ukraine\/\">the russian occupiers have raised communist flags<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/30\/the-russians- put-a-statue-of-the-communist-dictator-lenin-in-nova-kakhovka-ukraine\/\">they have installed statues of the soviet dictator Lenin<\/a>, in <strong>an exhibition of totalitarian paraphernalia<\/strong> that agrees with the murders, torture and rape they are committing against the Ukrainian military and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>En la regi\u00f3n de Jers\u00f3n, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/22\/soviet-flags-and-a-statue-of-lenin-the-russian-communist-paraphernalia-in-ukraine\/\">los ocupantes rusos han izado banderas comunistas<\/a> y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/04\/30\/russians-put-up-a-statue-of-the-communist-dictator-lenin-in-nova-kakhovka-ukraine\/\">han instalado estatuas del dictador sovi\u00e9tico Lenin<\/a>, en <strong>una exhibici\u00f3n de parafernalia totalitaria<\/strong> que concuerda con los asesinatos, torturas y violaciones que est\u00e1n cometiendo contra los militares y civiles ucranianos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military counteroffensive launched by Ukraine in the Kherson region a few days ago had one of its most successful days on Wednesday.<\/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":[17380,10444,17378,10731,16153,15307,16151],"class_list":["post-48508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-1st-special-purpose-separate-brigade-of-the-ukrainian-army","tag-communism","tag-nova-husarivka","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-army"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 06:24:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=48508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}