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Ukraine to compete at 2024 Olympics on one condition: athletes from Russia and Belarus must perform under neutral flags (www.rt.com)
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[–] MultigrainCerealista@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ukraine should perform under the flag of Bandera

[–] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the red and black one deeply associated with the far right, you mean?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The joke is that that represents their awful state ideology

[–] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

correct, if a state allows for the hosting of fascism it is inheritly fascist.

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fun fact: flag, in Spanish, means "bandera".

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's the etymology of that name actually, italian word for flag (also bandera) got adopted in many slavic countries.