The difference with your Russian flag and the Confederate Flag is that the men who died fighting for the Confederacy were just as American as the Union men. Most people in America have no idea about what that was about, and it shows in their interpretation of what the flag signifies. It has become a horribly rewritten history by the government schools.
And before anyone thinks otherwise, I was born and grew up in California, a Union state. General John C. Fremont is a hero of mine, along with General Robert E. Lee.
Wasting your Breath TD,,indoctrination runs deep.
..again, I'm not arguing what it really means, I was trying to point out where the racist accusation comes from (wrong in this case..) maybe I'm trying to get too much into psychology when this is going back to the old historical argument.
Funny the only thing people thought about the Confederate Flag when I was growing up was "redneck". We've allowed this pc sensitivity to go way too far.