how do you remember the USSR flag looking?

[rocker_oz33]

USSR vs USA kinda reminded me of Coke v Pepsi.

 

[Power Raid]

Still very noticeable in parts. Friedrichstrasse becomes more stark almost instantaneously when you cross from west to east.

The area around the Stasi Museum (which used to be their headquarters) still feels like it's been lifted straight out of a concrete block cut out that you'd expect to find in some constructed workers' city in Siberia.

this beauty in Perth is heritage listed

it probably serves as a reminder of what Perth would have looked like, if the soviets won the cold war

 

[Scotland]

Ugh, my eyes.

 

[Doss]

USSR vs USA kinda reminded me of Coke v Pepsi.

Too similar I reckon.

Make one LA Ice.

 

[edgie]

Classic propoganda shot. Probably had pride of place on Stalin's fireplace to gaze at when he wasn't dispatching orders to send his next enemy, real or imagined, off to the gulag, or show trial, or firing range.

Just like the flag raising at Iwo Jima?

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[Silent Alarm]

USSR vs USA kinda reminded me of Coke v Pepsi.

Interestingly, Pepsi is massive in Russia these days. Coke barely makes a dent on the economy there, which is crazy considering how Americanised their economy become once the market opened up. Russians love their Levi's.

Long story short, but during the cold war, Richard Nixon went over to the USSR and got a photo with some Ruskis – one of the American trinkets they brought over was a bottle of Pepsi. All of these regular citizens over in the USSR wanted to have some, obviously as their leaders were holding this unseen novelty drink. The Russians ended up agreeing to a trade with the US; America got crates of vodka and the USSR got boxes full of Pepsi.

When the USSR collapsed, Pepsi was seen as the drink of freedom and change and the outside world.

 

[Scotland]

Pretty sure Coca-Cola passed Pepsi a few decades ago in Russia.

Pepsi is historically huge in India and Pakistan due to foreign ownership laws. Coke wouldn't do business with the govt, Pepsi would. Coke is popular now but Pepsi is still way more popular than it is here. Lots of cricket sponsorships etc. such as the Pakistan ODI team.

 

[Doss]

Still remember many a late night as a kid watching cable crosses from Pepsi Cup ODI tournaments in the 1990s from the subcontinent.

 

[cannot]

can somebody please explain the OP to me

the flag didnt used to have the star in it

just the hammer and sickle

 

[Dazb86]

Still very noticeable in parts. Friedrichstrasse becomes more stark almost instantaneously when you cross from west to east.

The area around the Stasi Museum (which used to be their headquarters) still feels like it's been lifted straight out of a concrete block cut out that you'd expect to find in some constructed workers' city in Siberia.

The only place I really noticed it was in Gorlitzer park.

 

[Doss]

The only place I really noticed it was in Gorlitzer park.

Went there. Dealers galore.

 

[Dazb86]

Went there. Dealers galore.

Went there every day. Reminded me of the wire.

 

[ioppolo]

So which pic is the actual flag? I remember it without the star.

 

[cannot]

So which pic is the actual flag? I remember it without the star.

does that look right you reckoin>?

 

[ioppolo]

does that look right you reckoin>?

So some flags have a coloured in star whilst others have an outline, that doesn't help either.

 

[cannot]

So some flags have a coloured in star whilst others have an outline, that doesn't help either.

thats the 'official wiki' one

 

[MarcusP2]

the flag didnt used to have the star in it

just the hammer and sickle

It's always had a star.

The one without the star is the Chinese Communist Party's flag.

The flag that was hoisted above the Reichstag is now in a museum and has a star.

 

[Galaxie77]

Great Anthem too.
Which they have re adapted.... with changed lyrics.

 

[The_Reaper]

The sad thing is that for a certain video game (I don't remember the exact one) the cover was a version of that photo but in the American version they edited the flag to make it the US flag.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Staged pictures but interesting none the less.

They did plant the flag there in battle I think, but yeah that was a staged reenactment.

 

[ash_1050]

Took this picture in Transnistria. Seems the star was there.

 

[edgie]

The sad thing is that for a certain video game (I don't remember the exact one) the cover was a version of that photo but in the American version they edited the flag to make it the US flag.

Sounds interesting.

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