Inevitably someone here will point out that Soviet Communism is defunct, that the hammer-and-sickle is obsolete — and therefore this cartoon is flawed. Be aware that 70 years is a long time for a social system to last, and that many Russians look on those years with nostalgic yearning (even young people) and would gladly bring back them back, and Joseph Stalin, too. "National Geographic recently had an article about Putin’s Russia:
Inevitably someone here will point out that Soviet Communism is defunct, that the hammer-and-sickle is obsolete — and therefore this cartoon is flawed. Be aware that 70 years is a long time for a social system to last, and that many Russians look on those years with nostalgic yearning (even young people) and would gladly bring back them back, and Joseph Stalin, too. "National Geographic recently had an article about Putin’s Russia:
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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/12/putin-generation-russia-soviet-union/