Here's why: A series of photos shared on social media appears to show a man in Mariupol, Ukraine, swapping out a dilapidated blue and yellow Ukrainian flag hanging from an industrial building with ...

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The past seems to be present as new footage posted to social media appears to show a Russian armored personnel carrier flying the red banner of the Soviet Union during the invasion of Ukraine.

On Dec. 25, 1991, at 7:32 p.m., the Soviet flag came down over the Kremlin ... of the ‘Great October Revolution’ of 1917, the union heaved its last in the dreary darkness of late December ...

On Dec. 26, 1991, the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist. Its flag, with its famous hammer and sickle, was lowered outside the Kremlin at 7:32 p.m. Within a half-hour, the red, white and ...

Contrary to online claims, a collage showing a Ukrainian flag being removed and a flag of the Soviet Union raised on a flagpole does not depict a recent scene in Mariupol during the Russian ...

The trio were frequently grouped together as godheads of the Soviet political system. In the opening weeks of the invasion, a handful of Soviet flags flown ... the Soviet Union," he said.

It was to be called the Union of Soviet Socialist ... still known across the post-Soviet region as the Great Patriotic War. Red Army soldiers hoisted the Soviet flag from a balcony of the Hotel ...