[james500]

Shocking.

[arderkrag]

I guess mind-numbed robots are hard to wipe out entirely.

[TADSLOS]

Go with what you know...

[Levante]

“Russia’s Parliament has voted to restore the communist-era hammer and sickle to the official flag of the Russian Army.
It is expected President Vladimir Putin will ratify the move...”

Gee, what a surprise! (sarc) Looks like Pukehead and the other commies are pining for the good ol’ days of the Soviet Union. They must not have killed enough people, or stolen enough yet.

[Brucifer]

This is really gonna upset Pelosi and Reid. Now they can’t use the Hammer and Sickle for their new revised version of the US flag.

[M. Espinola]

"Russia's Parliament has voted to restore the communist-era hammer and sickle to the official flag of the Russian Army."

Next comes the totalitarian restoration of the Evil Empire, which Putin & his KGB goons are deleteriously but gleefully hastening in conjuntion with the Kremlin's hand picked horde of youthful neo-Soviet Nashi storm troopers.

Equally if not more dangerous is the neo-Soviet military machine is rapidly replacing old weapons of war with newer and more deadly - for eventual war against the West.

The submarine has a length of 170 meters (580 feet), a body diameter around 13 meters (42 feet), and a submerged speed of about 29 knots. It can carry up to 16 nuclear ballistic missiles.

Armed Russian subs lurking off our East and West coasts could inflict unthinkable horror in a sudden first strike.

Two other Borey-class nuclear submarines, the Alexander Nevsky and the Vladimir Monomakh, are currently under construction at the Sevmash plant, with a fourth submarine on the future production schedule list.

Goose stepping to Putin's war drum beat.

Putin holds his new toy, a souvenir the Russian supersonic Tu-160 strategic bomber / Photo: AP

[Otaku6]

Cut the aid package. Move all US bases located in germany to poland. Force the reds to move through Albania and have the Islamofacists stab them in the back.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[goldstategop]

1945 Victory Banner - restored for Great Patriotic War celebrations on May 9th in Russia:

[NucSubs]

What???!!!

[JadeEmperor]

I think the original article is very misleading and is taking the issue way out of context - which is in turn being taken out of context by Freepers here. The fact, this is not about re-adopting the Soviet "hammer and sickle" flag as the current flag of the Russian army (as many in this thread seem to be impressed), but about what to consider the official banner of WWII victory (the same flag that flew over the Reichstag) in Russia.

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?menu=1&id_issue=11727941

"Senators discussed the bill for the first time in mid-April. The majority of senators then opposed the bill passed by the State Duma, which provided that a copy of the flag raised atop the Reichstag in Berlin on May 1, 1945 have a five-pointed white star on a red field without the hammer and sickle."

All this is about, is whether or not to revise what the appearance of the official WWII Victory Banner should be. The Russians have voted to keep the original hammer and sickle as WWII Victory Banner. Big deal!

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11497522&PageNum=0

"The present version of the law was adopted by the State Duma on April 25. It was drawn up by the conciliatory commission. The first versions of the law, which introduced the notion of the “symbol of the Victory Banner,” was rejected first by the Federation Council and then by the President, because the symbol of the Victory Banner differed from the banner, which had been hoisted by Soviet Army soldiers over the Reichstag."

Like it or not, it was the Soviet army that stormed Berlin and it was a Soviet banner that flew over Reichstag. Not an American, British or Russian tricolor. That was all a part of history. To claim otherwise would be pure Orwellian revisionism, something like rewriting the textbooks that it was a UN banner, not the Stars and Stripes that flew over Gettysburg.

[ozzymandus]

Not suprising, considering that the glory days of the red army ended in 1945. Not unlike the brits, many of whom still claim they won WW2 without help.

[Rome2000]

I was in Checkoslovakia in '92 and personally cut the hammer and sickle out of 5 flags in an underground bunker.

Maybe Thompson understands PR, because W sure doesn't and when a PR vacuum exists Communists will be sure to fill it.

[ripley]

history repeats itself. (somebody dun forgot sumthin’...maybe the piles of bodies produced by the soviets?)

[Thunder90]

Russia/Soviet/Coldwar2 PING!!!

to be added or removed from this list, please FReepmail me!!!

[Thunder90]

There has been some rumors flying around about having Russian, Kazakh, and Belaurussian soldiers wear the Soviet ensign on their uniforms and caps like during the USSR.

[Halgr]

But the communists have an ally within America now...its called political correctness.

[spanalot]

Did it ever really leave?

[BuffaloJack]

No surprise here.
Move along. Nothing here to see.

[RetiredArmy]

Shocking hell. Russia has started reverting back to Soviet communism the day ole KGB man Putin went into office.

[MARKUSPRIME]

We all knew this was coming(russia,china,iran alliance). Paranoid disgusting communist/fascists. We need to stay sharp and frosty and deter them at every chance.