Old girl with purple flag is now the face of Russian loyalty on this struggle

An outdated woman holding the Soviet flag (the Red Banner) has change into a typical art work in captured territories throughout Eastern Ukraine.

Just a few weeks in the past, a video was shared a number of occasions on social media narrating an incident that occurred in one of many Ukrainian villages about an outdated girl, Babushka in Russian, who nonetheless owes her allegiance to the Red Banner – the erstwhile Soviet Union. This is a message that Putin desires to ring loud and clear throughout this yr’s ‘Victory Day’ celebrations.

The video exhibits the outdated woman, reportedly from Ukraine, stepping out of her home upon seeing troopers in camouflage. She greets them with a purple Soviet flag, pondering they’re Russian troopers. Walking as much as them, she says, “My dear sweet children, welcome, I prayed for you and I prayed for Putin, good that you came.”

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The troopers turned out to be Ukrainian. They laughed and mockingly mentioned, “Yes, yes, come here, auntie, take this food and give us this red material.”

The girl tells them to maintain the meals since they may want it greater than she. But, they persist, and hand over the meals to her. In return, they take the purple banner and start to stomp on it.

Disappointed, the ‘Babushka’ returns the meals and asks them to return the flag. She is heard saying, “You step on the flag under which my parents fought the Germans to liberate this country.”

This is the story that’s now being informed in every single place, being unfold by way of social media all throughout Russia, Crimea, the Donbass area (Donetsk and Luhansk) and the remainder of the captured territories in Ukraine.

Berdyansk and Melitopol in Zaporizhzhia Oblast have put up work of the girl with the purple flag at main crossroads. Several ‘Babushka’ souvenirs, T-shirts, mugs, posters at the moment are being bought to reassert Putin’s thought of an undivided Soviet Russia.

In truth, the Donbass Post has issued a put up card with Babushka superimposed on the backdrop of troopers in WWII uniform.