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I was a little surprised to see a hammer and sickle in the background of the first picture.
The soviet emblems are to be seen everywhere in today's Russia, train stations, public buildings, squares - hammer and sickles, statues of Lenine showing the way, statues of the deserving miner, etc.
I suppose people are actually attached to them, and are proud of their history. They remind them of the good old times, when everyone had a job, first-rate education, free medical care, when society actually took care of its people.
Why those emblems should be taken down, I have no idea. Would a properly Western-formatted mind explain that to me ?
Symbol of a totalitarian state and ideology. Then again, given the fact of how attached a part of this country is to the Confederate flag, we shouldn't complain too much.
That's only a part of what they represent. You may choose to discard the rest, but that's awfully hard to do in a room full of middle-aged russians...
