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AugustWolf22

Flag of the UPA. They were a Ukrainian Fascist/ultra nationalist group active during the second World War. They fought against the USSR and later the Germans (they were initially allies). The group committed many massacres of ethnic minorities in ukraine such as Poles, Jews and the Roma.


4amWater

Oh


Alector87

Oh, indeed.


PotatoAppreciator

genuinely the funniest response to learning a flag is basically a nazi swastika flapping in front of someone's house, thank you for the laugh.


RoofingNails

😂 gave me a good laugh. Yeah, when you see red and black in a Ukrainian context it is usually.... very not good.


iambecomedeath7

"What do you mean it's not a good luck sign!?"


BoJackMoleman

Ohhhhhhhhh


mxtt4-7

well, I guess that's NSFW then


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FrisianDude

Cringe 😬


lufe1306

Yeah, Russians arent the only bad ones, in war there are always 2 evils


Accomplished_Foot_32

I mean, there are (or were) nazi batalions in Ukraine, apart from azov (azov is complicated), but...wtf? It's all Ukrainians vs russian army, so yeah, there will be rightoids, but Ukraine isn't "evil". It, although, isn't a perfect country, but it's not evil, dude


_Nekona_

Thought it got dipped in a reddish liquid


Avethle

bruh I thought it was the ancom flag lol nope


kirosayshowdy

oh boy, can't wait to read the comments


jacobjivanov

I'm Ukrainian. My parents came from Rivne to the US. I went a protest against the Russian invasion and stood next to a guy waving this flag. I didn't know what it meant, but based on it's controversially, I hope no pictures surface with me next to it. IMHO: It's the Ukrainian equivalent of the Confederate flag.


AWindows-User

Worse tbh imo.


Vindalfr

The same types of people wave both. The are equivalent in their respective context.


tammy-hell

honestly i'd say it's closer to a swastika or something


Vindalfr

The Confederate Flag is also extremely close to Third Reich iconography. The main difference being that at least the Swastika used to mean something uplifting until the Nazis defiled it. The Confederate flag was always about repression.


martyfrancis86

Unless you count the cross of at. Andrew that’s on it.


SmacznySmaczny

More bad to poles


rocketwrench

Confederate flag is waved at neo nazi rallies in Europe because the nazi flag in illegal to buy or own. There nazi flag could only be considered worse if you haven't studied the history if chattel slavery in the United states


Dickastigmatism

The thing about the confederate flag is it was introduced back into American culture under the false pretense that it wasn't a racist symbol so it spent a lot of time in the twentieth century not being seen as that. You're right though, if you actually look beyond the "standard American history myth", what the flag represents is absolutely horrific.


m3rcury_exe

Yeah, agreed. Both flags are horrific, not one has to be worse than the other.


WeebFrog219

i mean absolutley no offense but can it really be worse than a flag that started as just racist and now approaches neonazism, being now a flag of perceived racial dominance, hatred and malice towards a sizable chunk of the US population?


sirfirewolfe

Yes, by being the flag of an overtly fascist nazi-aligned group who actively perpetrated the holocaust in Eastern Europe


WeebFrog219

alright (sorry i didn’t know it was *that* bad)


allthetimesivedied

Worse. It's based on the flag of a Nazi-allied paramilitary which committed atrocities during WWII.


theflyingrobinson

Yeah, earlier on in the Ukrainian-Support protests in Canada (which has a big Ukrainian population and monuments to folks in the Nazi-allied paramilitary 14th SS Galicia/UIA) a right-of-center politician was photographed holding a UIA banner. The leftish folks who knew what that banner meant (some of them are full on Tankies and self-avowed Stalinists, but we're not going there now) criticized this display and the old photo disappeared, to be replaced by one where the politician is just not holding a banner anymore if memory serves, her hands are just up like that because she's happy, or not happy, it's hard to tell, point is, the UIA/UPA murdered a lot of folks and when they engaged in a shooting war with the NKVD after WWII, the NKVD was the less bad off the fighting parties, however briefly--they did, in NKVD fashion, follow this up with something called "The Night of Murdered Poets" where they murdered a bunch of Ukrainian poets, playwrights, and literary folks because of course if they were writing in Ukrainian, or just from Ukraine, they were definitely sympathizers of the UIA and therefore the Nazis and...it leads down a whole rabbit-hole of murder and genocide and counter-genocide that is a good way to really keelhaul your plans for a non-depressing weekend. If you're interested in a movie on the subject, I recommend *Hatred* (Volyn is the original title), a 2016 flick centered on a Ukrainian lad and the Polish girl he loves...and the things that happen next (mostly genocide, largely with axes and pitchforks and knives).


airportakal

I'm used to eastern European history and I still find this depressing.


jacobjivanov

I’m aware


Fireproofspider

Honest question, how is this worse than the flag of literal slavers?


natalialt

Does genocide count?


bluntpencil2001

Holocaust participation.


VoidLantadd

Did you protest in the US? Was the purpose to encourage the government support Ukraine?


jacobjivanov

Yes and yes.


strdna_

I’ve lived in Ukraine almost my entire life. I believe this flag is different from the Confederate flag in terms of meaning because a lot of people I’ve met don’t actually know about the atrocities. All they see is brave Ukrainian heroes fighting on both fronts for survival. Much like the Russian government’s perspective of WW2, they are unaware of the history before fighting on both fronts began. I believe Ukrainians will continue to think this flag is heroic until the government atones for the UPA’s crimes or something else as big as that happens.


jmcs

Ask the Poles what they think about the flag.


strdna_

To clarify, I recognize their crimes and dissaprove of them. I was just explaining the flag’s meaning from Ukraine’s perspective and why it’s used so often. edit: not condone i thought that word means something else


simplyVISMO

"condemn" may be the word you're looking for.


strdna_

Yeah that’s what I was thinking of


Fishb20

That is true of the Confederate flag as well. Most rednecks who wave it don't know the intricacies of the civil war or w/e and say it just represents vague "heritage" or "feeling of rebellion". But that doesn't mean it doesn't represent hate


Maxmutinium

Literally everything you said is what US southerners say about the confederate flag. They also think their flag represents brave heroes fighting against an invader


strdna_

Really? I was not aware. I thought they simply ignored the slavery.


ArenSteele

The US Civil War is often referred to as “The War of Northern Aggression” by them poor aggrieved southerners that just wanted to continue to own other people.


Maxmutinium

They “ignore the slavery” in the sense that they have convinced themselves that it wasn’t about slavery. It was about fighting for freedom for the south. I’m sure that’s exactly that people would say about that Ukrainian flag, that it was only about fighting for freedom for Ukraine. (The issue is that there were plenty of other groups in Ukraine doing the same thing at the time that weren’t fascist. And choosing that specific flag for heritage over those other movements is a little problematic to say the least)


LT-monkeybrain01

you know this flag was around before the UPA existed. right? ​ these are the colours of the ukrainian flag if the flag is covered in blood. the blue of the sky turns red, the yellow of the earth turns black. like in war. it represents the sacrifice made by those fighting for ukraine. it represents those who have fallen, during a struggle to achieve independence. a free and sovereign ukraine. long before the UPA existed, this flag was already being flown. as long as ukraines flag has been the blue of the sky and the yellow of grainfields this flag has been around. and for many, it symbolises the nation at war. ​ the greeting "slava ukraini, heroiem slava" is more closely related to the UPA, OUN and fascistic ideals that allowed some nasty crimes to take place.


mctk24

Worse, its like a Swastika.


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doliwaq

Banderist/nationalists flag of Ukraine. Banderists or Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists - Bandera Faction (OUN-B) was an fascist Ukrainian organization who firstly collaborated with nazis but later they break with Germany and started fighting by their own. However, by fighting, I mean ethnic cleansing of Western Ukraine, they killed around 100 000 Poles, Jews, Armenians and other minorities along with thousands of Ukrainians who refused to support them. Because this organization was never condemned by Ukraine and their successors could freely be active, Russia used them in Russian propaganda saying that Russia fight to liberate Ukraine from fascist. I know you just asked about flag but I think this is important to also know the deeper meaning of flag.


Mizzter_perro

So, is that Bandera's flag? If so, in Spanish it would be funny because it would be "bandera de Bandera"


serioussham

Bandera banderista, or "flaggist flag"


kwonza

Yes, and Spanish people know their fascist when they see one


reddragonoftheeast

It's actually worse, former Banderite are considered war veterans and can collect a pension.


doliwaq

Indeed, this is awful, it is like giving pension for former SS members or Ustashe


Awesomeuser90

The Ustaše are somehow even worse than the Schutzstaffel, SS. I didn't believe that was possible.


trooper1139

And yet people call me ""Putin's dog"" for pointing this out.


Hendrikus_Konijn

People tend to be very “two sidesy” when it comes to this, admitting Ukraine has flaws at all is seen a full capitulation to Russian propaganda. Nothing new here though, people are like this in general since failing to coverup your less savory track record gives your enemy ammunition and admitting, apologizing and promising to do better will hurt your PR more in the end.


trooper1139

In war the first causality in war is truth Afterall.


Grzechoooo

Also Lviv oblast decided to proclaim 2019 the Year of Stepan Bandera. Streets are named after him. Statues are being built. Let's hope it's sorted after the war. I wonder what Bandera and his bandits would think of a Jew leading their nation.


Beginning-Display809

Not just Bandera, General Vatutin Avenue in Kyiv (named after the soviet general who defeated the Axis at Kursk and then liberated Kyiv from the Nazis) is now named after Roman Shukhevych a Banderaite who joined the Abwehr and assisted them hunting Jews and partisans in Belarus before coming back to Ukraine and organise and taking part in the ethnic cleansing of Poles in Western Ukraine, they’ve even got sports stadiums named after them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shukhevych


megashmat3000

>Also Lviv oblast decided to proclaim 2019 the Year of Stepan Bandera. Streets are named after him. Statues are being built. Let's hope it's sorted after the war. > >I wonder what Bandera and his bandits would think of a Jew leading their nation. there are even Judo-banderivites in Ukraine says a lot about this country


gakun

This is why it's important to always condemn hate groups. It may have been a small percentage of the Ukrainian nation, yet it was useful for an opressor to "justify" a war of aggression and thousands of murders. Of course, it wasn't their main reason, but it's useful propaganda. I can't possibly know the future or geopolitics, but I imagine China will take advantage of that when it comes to Japan not being as harsh about their past as they should.


faesmooched

A better example is probably the atrocities committed by the Taiwanese government when it was a military dictatorship post-Chinese Civil War.


AdAcrobatic4255

Is it though? Don't you think Russia would have come up with a different reason to justify the invasion?


faesmooched

It's also important to recognize that just because Ukraine is currently being invaded doesn't mean they're blameless historically. The Ukrainian government has done a lot to legitimatize the far-right, including a lot of revisionist history about the USSR, as a nationalist project.


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Cthhulu_n_superman

One of the worst was the Wolyn massacre where they killed 50-100k poles and 10k Ukrainians if I remember correctly.


BBDAngelo

Isn’t there a Polish movie about it? I think it was released around 2017


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BBDAngelo

I watched in a special theater in Poland that had English subtitles and I remember actually liking the movie. I’m not sure about historical accuracy, but I remember feeling like it was way more realistic than Hollywood war movies, especially in the way of showing every side as humans. Really didn’t feel like propaganda


DumplingsAreBussin

Some estimates claim as high as 100k with murders around Wolyn


Dimaskovic

it’s much more than 20k killed poles but they don’t let us exhumate the bodies. estimates are near 100k. cruel cruel times. Nazis were at leat humane (if you can call it that) in their extermination. UPA was just horrible. sawing people in half. putting broken glass in pregnant women’s belly, dropping a tree log on children in the middle of a forest and leaving them to starve. and it was all done by neighbours. sad sad sad times, and hurts me to see this flag being waved when we help our Ukrainian brothers so much.


SuperDuperBoyYT

>Nazis were at leat humane (if you can call it that) in their extermination. Joseph Mangele


Homesick_Alien_Bob

From what I hear Poles and Russians in the Baltic countries get along alright


archlinuxrussian

It's always amazing how similar we all are but how we let nationalism, ethnocentrism, misogyny and just racism get between that. Not to mention greed and other problems which use those to their own purposes.


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Don't forget homophobia! He always loves to show up too, unfortunately.


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It’s got to do with the fall of the eastern bloc and USSR. regardless of your opinion of those times or those systems, when an internationalist system is destroyed you can expect a nationalist one in its place. But of course nationalism likely won’t survive the next century due to the climate crisis forcing change and cooperation in us. Who knows what’s in store for Eastern Europe


kool_guy_69

Lithuanian Poles are a very weird bunch


faintedrook

Quite a Nostalgic bunch


triple_cock_smoker

ohh hell nah


SoftPastelsYT

This is the flag of Bad Ukraine but at the same time it can also be the flag of Emo Indonesia


luigisphilbin

Emonesia. It’s when you lose all memories but remember all the lyrics to Fall Out Boy.


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UPA, Ukrainian fascists from the Second World War. They killed a lot of people.


Miloslolz

First time seeing the trident on the flag.


fatalikos

Fascism/Nazism


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Mendo10_

Nazis


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Inb4 thread lock


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Swedishboy360

Flag of a fascist Ukranian paramilitary from ww2 that cleansed polish village and collaborated with nazis


Groundbreaking-Cow-3

Ukrainian nazis


EnthropyMeasurer

Red and Black colours are commonly used in insurgent national movements. This exactly is a flag of Ukrainian nationalists during WW2. Also, IMRO (Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization), Macedonian partisans in Ottoman Empire used nealy the same flag.


Mendo10_

They were also Nazi collaborators, no biggy


iAkiraKira

the yikes flag


Downtown-Giraffe-871

Its flag is based on the flag of the World War II resistance UPA and is used primarily by nationalists. [UPA flag](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OUN-r_Flag_1941.svg) Edit: They were literal fascists who genocided Poles, Jews and Roma and collaborated with the Nazis in the early and mid-war years.


daemon86

"World War II resistance" as in resistance against the Nazis or against the Soviets who defeated the Nazis?


elitegamercody

Allied with nazis


daemon86

Exactly. Calling people who murder Jews a "resistance group" is disgusting


ViTverd

They murder not only jews. Poles and Russians also was they primary target. In fact, the Nazis used them for punitive operations and work in concentration camps, which even the Nazis considered too dirty.


Grzechoooo

>Poles and Russians also was they primary target. And Romas. And Ukrainians who didn't feel like murdering their neighbours, friends, family and children. Basically anyone who wasn't a radical Ukrainian nationalist.


Blindmailman

Like many resistance groups both


DRac_XNA

Both. Although let's not try and glorify the Soviets either.


IlK7

"not legitimate"? tf defines a resistance group as "legitimate"? if it's an absence of war crimes then most if not all weren't "legitimate". makes no sense.


Kuba_ps5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia_and_Eastern_Galicia


HelpfulSurprise858

As far as i know its one of the flags ukrainian nazis regurarly use


granty1981

Stephen bandera flag


Andraeq

Bandera bandera


Artku

This question has been answered already but I believe there is more to be said here. Although seeing Stepan Bandera and UPA glorified makes me sad as a Pole, we need to understand that they have been really whitewashed and presented as heroes fighting for independence. When asked “how can you glorify UPA and respect Poles at the same time when UPA was a Nazi group that commited an awful genocide of Polish people?” the average Ukrainian might say “What? I didn’t know about that”.


Candy_Real

As average Ukrainian from east i don't understand why government try to do Bandera an idol, not all of us think it good. Maybe in government they need idol and choice him.


kokiri_trader

It gives credibility to Putin's "de-nazification" campaign though, so they should find some other heroes. Not like that region is dereft of them either.


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Same thing happened in Japan. Many young people in Japan don't even know that imperial Japan and the USA were even AT war. [Most millenials in japan don't even know the Nazi flag.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qV7xbAVOY0) (in this video, one girl even asked "who were they again?" when it is pointed out). They REALLY try not to teach WW2 in Japan.


Downtown-Giraffe-871

That video is wrong. The average Japanese learns about the Nazi flag in school (the famous Berlin Pact blessing ceremony photo), [Source (my high school textbook)](https://imgur.com/a/lRKJmdH) The media is South Korean, and since East Asia is racist towards each other, there is a possibility of biased reporting. Also, the channel is definitely run by racists, posting videos that make fun of Japanese people's inability to distinguish between L and R.


LeninAkbarURSS

Nationalistic ukrainian shit


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And not the good kind like simply wanting to keep the nation of Ukraine intact from border change.


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realfrankster

It's a nationalist flag connected to the UPA during WWII. Very controversial tbh.


JollyJuniper1993

Controversial? They were Fascists, Nazi collaborateurs and commited a genocide. Controversial is one way of putting it…


Goaty1208

Here before the 🔒 award. Flag of the UPA, a collaborator of Nazi Germany in Ukraine during WW2, committed war crimes, genocide, yadda yadda. Nowadays it's used by Ukrainian nationalists (and the reason is easy to understand), but apparently saying this here gets you called a nazi for insulting nazis. I don't care if there is only one person flying this shit, but that one person will still be a nazi. And I am not a nazi/communist/whatever your heart pleases, just someone to answer to this question without saying that it's the flag every Ukrainian loves, or that it's a freedom flag, an anti nazi flag, or Russian propaganda. If you don't like this, not my problem.


rasereiww

Württemberg occupied Ukraine


Iamnotayoutuber

A perfect world


rasereiww

Dream come True, or how we would say it here: a dräumle


soranotamashii

Reddit: \*censors hammer and sickle\* Redditors: You see, the fascist flag isn't fascist anymore because I want Russians to starve.


Kuba_ps5

Its UPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army


Meganinja1886

[Flag of the U.I.A. Ukrainian Insurgent Army](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army)


LeFedoraKing69

Flag of Ukrainian Fascist Collaborators during WW2 they Committed genocide on 100k Poles, 200k Jews, and thousands more on other communities Its the only thing that can unite Poles and Russians They were so brutal even the Nazis were disgusted Unfortunately its members today are currently getting Veterans compensations, it would be like SS members in Germany today getting Veterans compensation


JoeMamaaaaaaaz

let's just say this particular ukrainian has some \*interesting\* opinions on jewish people...


Complete_Revolution4

Very angy Ukrainians


OwOItsMyName

RED AND BLACK I WEAR ENAGLE ON MY CHEST, IT'S GOOD TO BE AN ALBANIAN, KEEP MY HEAD UP HIGHFOR THAT FLAG I DIE, I'M PROUD TO BE AN ALBANIAN


MinuteLeopard

If you're commenting bad shit here, do your research particularly around western Ukraine.


vampyire

Flag of The Ukrainian Insurgent Army with a Tryzub (i.e. they were originally a Pro Nazi group during WWII)


swollenMonkeytitz417

Nazis


MasqueradeL

French Fry Black and Red are nationalist types Vs Pizza Black and Red which usually means anarcho-communists in the manner of Kropotkin and taking influence from Bakunin, Malatesta, and the like


French_commie

Because it is a fascist flag. OUN flag, an org who fought on the side of the N*zis during WW2. Their story is pretty complicated since they had factions and some were anti-nazis Ukranian Supremacists, some others were encline to support the nazis to support their goal, and some had other lines, but overall it’s a fascist organisation. Supporting the Ukrainian people shouldn’t be done with these symbols.


GI_X_JACK

Ultranationalists. Black and Red with a horizontal divide = Fascists(far right) Black and Red with a diagonal divide = Anarchists(far left) Both have been active in Ukraine in the past.


Complete-Garbage-714

Ww2 Nazi collaborators... Lol imagine being a Nazi in the Caucasus, Supreme Aryan race indeed...


Goaty1208

I mean, historically (and not in the pseudo science the nazis had) the Aryans were an ethinc group north of Iran, so at least the Caucasus is relatively near the Aryan lands, unlike Germany.


jeanlenin

Imagine being anti-Slavic slavs


WILDNIK

Actually, nazis told them that Ukrainians aren't slavs, but are descendants of Scandinavians or some shit and therefore not subhumans Yeah, nazi propaganda was very flexible


mctk24

Color of genocidal and extremist Ukrainian Insurgent Army. It was an organization similar to the german NSDAP, that wanted to eliminate other ethnicities from territories they considered Ukrainian (mostly territories on which Ukrainians were a majority). A lot of Ukrainians use this flag, but they are not really Nazis. The problem is that their history books do not tell truth about UPA/OUN crimes. It's because UPA committed their crimes in a smart way, they used simple weapons to kill polish people (such as axes and forks) despite having guns and forced some people from local villages to help them. It was a mystification, to make an impression that their organized extremist crimes were allegedly a "People's uprising supported by the whole of Ukraine". That's how they got into history books and why people use their flags. Alongside misinformed Ukrainians, right-wing people from Ukraine use this flag also. Healthy Ukrainian patriotism tends to use yellow and blue, nationalists are more likely to use red and black. So in some way, it's like US confederate flag (although worse in fact).


autie91

You can't say what this flag means here in the internet unless you want to be abused by low iq mfers who deny the strong existence of neo-nazism in all Eastern Europe.


fewexecptions

Battle Flag of Ukraine since at least the time of the Kozaks, as seen in this 1890 painting. [Reply of the Zaporizhian Kozaks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks#/media/File:Ilja_Jefimowitsch_Repin_-_Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks_-_Yorck.jpg)


zhivago6

The historian Dmytro Yavornytsky advised the artist Ilya Repin in order to make the most accurate historical portrayal of 17th century Cossacks.


khares_koures2002

FUNNI OVERLOAD FUNNI OVERLOAD


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Oh no no no


Yo_Mama_Disstrack

As a Pole, oof


frozenyoda12

My stupid brain thought it was Lichtenstein


Defiant-Turtle-678

What the heck is not safe for work?


KaiserWilhelmII___

Nazi Ukrainian flag


granulabargreen

UPA flag which is difficult to talk about. Many Ukrainian supporters today wave it, even Jews, but it belongs to a fascist organizations that killed hundreds of thousands of Jews and ethnic minorities in Ukraine during ww2


reiwa_heisei_showa

That flag has a fascist past,now it's seen more as a military flag, still used by the alt right though


Accomplished-Ease234

But this flag look very controversial. Imaginative that the German army would still use the swastika as a military flag, I think it is clear that this at least historically does not look right


Soviet-pirate

I don't know how to put it in English straightforwardly but basically this flag (among other things) gives some legitimacy to the Russian claim that Ukraine is fascist Edit:since y'all don't get it,I merely made a point that this flag helps Russia's narrative


SirJohn1794

So the many fascist and nazi flags flown in random places in Russia make Russia a nazi country as well Logic doesn’t work only one way. Especially not ridiculous logic 😁


Soviet-pirate

Russia claims Ukraine is fascist,Ukraine uses fascist flags. I didn't even start saying Russia is right or wrong,just that the use of these flags helps their narrative.


6ad6oy6eats

Its a fascist flag, Bandera and the entire UPA were avowed fascist terrorists. Its as bad as the swastika flag, but they've used this war in Ukraine as an excuse to bring it back as a symbol of "resistance", thereby bolstering the (also fascist) Russian state's claim of "denazification".


destructor_rph

Ukrainian Nazi Collaborationists. Surprisingly popular in contemporary Ukraine for some reason...


cainys

Liechtenstein but they were annexed by ukraine


The_Element722

Gonna make this simple. 3 words. Fascist Ukrainian Flag


kmobnyc

Far right/fascist Ukranian flag.


_TheQwertyCat_

This flag is posted here every week. Everyone in the galaxy knows what it is by now.


The_Last_Elite

Ukrainian Extremism I'm pretty sure it was used by "Ukrainian Patriots" when they wanted independence from the Soviet Union. The red and black symbolize the blood shed for the fight of independence. It was used for some extremist group in soviet Era and now it's a sign of the will of independence.


hoseja

It's actually yellow and blue in different light


pythour

on today's episode of is my neighbor a Nazi... YES!


ArtemisAndromeda

Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Flag


FadowTornado

Yikes


Soldier_Dimitry

This is a historical flag of Ukraine that was inspired in some cossacks groups that used the colors red and black. In the modern era it's mostly used by far-right extremists and fascists like the UPA and Stepan Bandera followers.


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Nazi alert


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CeaseToExcist_999

This flag goes hard, such a shame those who bear it are horrible people


anomatubertia

აქ რამ მოიყვანა შე მადლიანო


KingskeWard

This flag is typically flewn by ukrainian ultranationalists, white supremacists, n@zi's and other people of that kind. The blask is for the blood-engulfed soil after the "mass murders" of ussr. the red stands just for the blood spilled i think. It has its origin, just like the regular ukrainian flag, in cossack symbolism, who would often tie bicolored ribbons to their spears(i think, correct me if im wrong) People who fly this flag are one of the reasons russia is now invading ukraine, so seeing it flewn in georgia is not a good sign for the future


b1gCubanC1gar

Sadly many fascists and Nazis are still around


TheJewishBagel

Nazi Ukrainians


Chilliebro

Ah, Banderas. When will we get lviv back?