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"President Vladimir Putin agreed [on November 26th] to reinstate the Soviet-era Red Star as the Russian military's official emblem -- in the latest reincarnation of Communist symbols that has sparked fears of a return to the repressive past," reported AP Moscow correspondent Vladimir Isachenkov.
"The star is sacred for all servicemen," declared Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov during a Russian television interview. "Our fathers and grandfathers went to battle with the star." Of course, in many of those battles the star was paired with the Swastika as Soviet and Nazi forces collaborated in the 1939-1941 rape of Poland. Sovietera dissident Sergei Grigoryants protested that ...