> Putin doesn't want a "new USSR". During the first months of the invasion when the Kremlin was searching for powerful symbolism, one of the symbols they tried

> Putin doesn't want a "new USSR". During the first months of the invasion when the Kremlin was searching for powerful symbolism, one of the symbols they tried to use was a Red Flag Granny: https://rg.ru/2022/04/12/babushka-s-krasnym-flagom-stala-simvolom-prorossijskoj-ukrainy.html https://rg.ru/2022/04/12/babushka-s-krasnym-flagom-stala-sim.... They even installed some hastily-made monuments to her, which had to be removed just weeks later after the Granny apologised to the Ukrainian media.