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[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What am I missing here, isn't the red and black anarcho communism?

E: got it, horizontal vs diagonal. In the picture, the flags being slumped allowed me to interpret the colors being diagonal at a glance. Banderites, yuck.

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 49 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It is the flag of the OUN, Nazi collaborators

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If the colors are horizontal bars then it's the ukie nazi flag

Edit: ONE of the ukie nazi flags

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

soypoint-2

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Trying to talk a comrade i know out of using a red on black horizontal bar in a design, and they told me its also the flag of Angola and to not worry about it. 😮‍💨

I guess I should have made the point about how many Ukranian community centres there are where we live

red on black is also the inverted colours of the Indigenous flag, which I felt extra ick about

these things are all meaningless when taken out of context but like, coconut trees and etc

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

It was originally a leftist thing that meant solidarity in rebellion, of course a bunch of nazis try to ruin it.

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago

horizontal vs diagonal makes a big difference here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Ukrainian_Insurgent_Army

a flag previously used by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the Bandera wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and now used by various Ukrainian nationalist organizations and parties, including UNA-UNSO, Right Sector, Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists and others.

In Poland, the red-and-black flag is widely associated with the Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia, during which between 60,000 and 120,000 Poles were murdered by the UPA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_symbolism#Red_and_black_flag