• Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    The USSR collapsed more than 30 years ago. Modern day Russia has nothing to do with communism at all.

    It is closer to its Czarist imperial roots than it is to the the USSR. You would be more accurate using the Russian Imperial Eagle

    They literally revived the old imperial symbol when the Russian federation was created.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah yeah. You’re right of course. I am an American child of the 80’s though which is why my mind uses the hammer and sickle still.

      Also, Fuck Russia.

      Edit: And, you try photoshoping that fucking eagle into a stencil format. Fuck that.

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      10 months ago

      I mean tbf they also make use of soviet iconography to just as much of a degree, they have a weird obsession with synchrotizing soviet aesthetics with Imperial Russian aesthetics in what can only be described as “grievance culture chique”

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        10 months ago

        Fascists always talk about returning to some former greatness. If the greater past was communist, thousands of years ago or a fairy tale does not matter as much.

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        10 months ago

        From what my Russian friends told me: Putin is a neo czarist. He has been preaching the “evils of western influences” for 30 years and trying to revive the Russian Empire. “As Marxism is a German ideology and was imported by the Germans to cause the Russian Empire to implode into civil war and close the western front in WWI to destabilize the Russian Empire it is inherently flawed and evil” : the “mighty Russian” people endured “western Marxism” and are still proud of their cultural symbolism from that time period as they made the art not the “evil westerners who tricked them into attempting communism”.

        If you would like more sourced information about this topic, I would advise you to read the foundations of geopolitics.

        Edit added more quote marks

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        10 months ago

        If he was a communist and had control of Russia than Russia wouldn’t be the way it was.

        It may surprise you that some capitalism supporters got into power in the soviet union before Yeltsin ordered the parliament to be bombarded with tanks, dissolving the socialist democracy and bringing about capitalism in former soviet states.

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    10 months ago

    Nice, you added bunch of shit that don’t have anything to do with each other. Nice post bro