Image: A Ukrainian postal stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Stepan Bandera’s birth. Public Domain
Symbols were important during the Soviet era.
The hammer and cycle was the premier example. Then there were the statues of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, and the names of notable Soviets on streets across the empire.
But a lot of the countries that fell under the Russian yoke — because, in truth, the Soviet empire was just another manifestation of the Russian empire — deeply resented the Soviet symbols. In their minds, they were reminders not of solidarity across the empire but of the repression that Russia imposed …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
