He's probably from the Donbass area, being a volunteer. To them, The USSR is something of a nostalgia thing, back when they weren't being slaughtered by the Ukrainians. Towns liberated by Russia were hoisting the USSR flags to signify their rejection of Ukraine.
I have a friend in Serbia and people there rally behind the flag of Yugoslavia. Not because they love communism, but because it's a nostalgic time when they had unity, before NATO bombed the shit out of their country, killed so many innocent civilians, and tore their country apart. I imagine these Ukrainian Russians have the same sentiments.
I remember back in my Reddit days (before everyone started licking each other’s buttholes) Russian redditors would talk about how the older generations often would pine for the USSR days. Was hard for me to imagine, now I understand if only a bit.
Everything was so unimaginably horrible in the 20-50s that everything that came after must have been like heaven in comparison. Then in the 80s all went down the drain again.
He's probably from the Donbass area, being a volunteer. To them, The USSR is something of a nostalgia thing, back when they weren't being slaughtered by the Ukrainians. Towns liberated by Russia were hoisting the USSR flags to signify their rejection of Ukraine.
I have a friend in Serbia and people there rally behind the flag of Yugoslavia. Not because they love communism, but because it's a nostalgic time when they had unity, before NATO bombed the shit out of their country, killed so many innocent civilians, and tore their country apart. I imagine these Ukrainian Russians have the same sentiments.
American patriot living in Russia here. Stevethefish76 has the correct and best answer.
Its so twisted but true, those who grew up in the 70s and 80s USSR had it pretty damn good compared to the time after it all fell apart
I remember back in my Reddit days (before everyone started licking each other’s buttholes) Russian redditors would talk about how the older generations often would pine for the USSR days. Was hard for me to imagine, now I understand if only a bit.
Everything was so unimaginably horrible in the 20-50s that everything that came after must have been like heaven in comparison. Then in the 80s all went down the drain again.
It's like this way in Transnistria too. Nostalgia