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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Turns out this is a bit of a rabbit hole! Despite that flag being used by the Free Nations of PostRussia Forum, I’ve not been able to find the exact version of the flag they use. From this image, I’ve been able to get the name of the proposed nation - Соедененные Штаты Сибири, which translates to the United States of Syberia. I have been unable to find any English, non fictional sources in English, but I have found one in Russian (though hosted on a server in the US), here. Quotes (translated by google translate, with some editorial oversight by me):

    The United States of Siberia is a non-existent hypothetical (under development and project) federal independent liberal democratic state of Rashki [Russia], which many of its supporters for “free Siberia” supposedly to quietly develop independently and no longer feed Muscovy [Moscow], Chechnya and all the other freeloaders.

    [Section] Separation from Faggots [derogatory for Russians?]

    On Rasey [Russia], many are surprised. Why would it be some fascist commies in the Scoop [USSR].

    This is only a small selection of what is present on the site.

    It seems the flag the folks at the FNPRF used looks something like this (with a extra stripe?)

    However, curiously, there have been semi-successful (?) though short-lived separatist movements in the area, establishing a Siberian Republic in 1918, in the aftermath of the Febuary revolution, which (at least according to wikipedia), have used this flag:










  • My guess is that its mostly a result of them not yet realising how much western red scare propaganda influences their opinion on things.

    Its one thing to realise or mode of production is deeply flawed another to put capitalism as a whole at fault and yet another to start questioning ones every assumption.

    Honestly I feel like there is a bit of a gap when it comes to easily approachable information. A lot of the youtube content which talks about the Soviet Union from a ML perspective expects the viewer to have some understanding of ML ideals. I think content which serves to not prove to the viewer ML ideas but to show what Marxist Leninist believe.

    As an example the CPR. Red scare actions are still active thus the status quo opinion is that anything but an uncritical aggression towards the CPR is an extremist position.

    TL;DR: while red scare actions by western media and institutions definetly has an impact, approachability for non MLs definetly could be improved.