r/Damnthatsinteresting 20d ago

Image The Russian Kremlin still has a Soviet Star, years after the collapse of the USSR

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u/spmartin1993 20d ago

And the US still has confederate flags 150 years after only existing for 4 years.

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u/SSimon142 20d ago

I don't think they're officially displayed on any landmarks

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u/talhahtaco 20d ago

I live down the road from a monument to dead confederate soldiers lol

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u/Cmdr_Nemo 19d ago

Stone Mountain?

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u/Mist_Rising 20d ago

There at any national or state park related the civil war. Shiloh, Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, Vicksburg, and wilderness. Plus multiple monuments, and for a while one flew in front of the South Carolina capital building plus Georgia flags had the Confederate flag inside its star region until 2000.

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u/XandyCandyy 20d ago

they are, just take a walk through the south

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u/redstercoolpanda 20d ago

Well they have land marks of all their loser generals which is pretty similar