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.
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.
It's like this way in Transnistria too. Nostalgia