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Title: For the first time in a 100 years a Russian army fights under the banner of Jesus Christ
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sky.com
URL Source: http://news.sky.com/story/1434081/p ... gas-cut-off-smacks-of-genocide
Published: Feb 25, 2015
Author: sky.com
Post Date: 2015-02-25 16:25:31 by Pericles
Keywords: Russia, Ukraine
Views: 9181
Comments: 37
Russian "sepratists" armored column flying a war banner with the face of Jesus Christ. This is something I have never imagined would happen in my lifetime. There is deep significance here.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1434081/putin-ukraine-gas-cut-off-smacks-of-genocide I can't get the HTML code to show the picture captioned: A convoy of pro-Russian forces' 2S1 Gvozdika (122-mm self-propelled howitzers) drives from the frontline near the eastern Ukrainian city of Starobeshevo
The pic is there but it's buried in the gallery code. Which is why you can't just right-click it as usual to copy the image URL. They actually seem to store these photos in six sizes for everything from cellphones to ultra-fine displays. At the risk of messing up this thread's pagination, here's the 1600x1200 version where you can see the face much better. From the same photo gallery, Novorossiya can't seem to decide what flag it wants to fly as seen here. First that thing that looks like a cheap ripoff of Confederate battle banners, then the three-vertical-bars flag of Russia. (Ukraine has a two-bar flag, blue and gold.) The flag of Lugansk People's Republic looks like this: The flag of the Donetsk People's Republic looks like this: Russian Federation's flag looks like: So either the rebels like the Russian flag or they forgot to change flags when they brought the tanks west.
The Confederate looking flag is the flag of Novorossiya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Novorossiya I have also seen them fly the black and orange St George ribbon flag.
Battle banner. The actual Confederate flag(s) looked a lot like the regular American flag and was issued in several versions because the Confederate legislature was kinda confused and worried about other things. Like defeat. If citizens of the Confederacy ever saw these flags, it was most likely one of the 7-star versions from 1861. Some bunch of Wisconsin Yankees captured this one at Columbia, SC and brought it home as war booty.
The EU flag looks like The First Confederate Navy Jack, 1861–1863
I know. : ) Flags and banners are filled with all sorts of unintentional ironies. Apparently, they don't hire top men in the field to design these things. What was that thing where two countries showed up at the 1936 Olympics and were embarrassed to discover that they both had adopted the same flag? Apparently, it was Haiti and Liechtenstein.
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#9. To: Pericles, redleghunter (#1)
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#13. To: TooConservative (#9)
So either the rebels like the Russian flag or they forgot to change flags when they brought the tanks west.
#20. To: Pericles, Vicomte13 (#13)
The Confederate looking flag is the flag of Novorossiya
First flag of the Confederate States of America Name "Stars and Bars" Adopted March 4, 1861 (First 7-star version)
November 28, 1861 (Final 13-star version)Designed by Nicola Marschall 
Second flag of the Confederate States of America Name "Stainless Banner" Proportion 1:2 Adopted May 1, 1863 
Third flag of the Confederate States of America Name "Blood-Stained Banner" Proportion 2:3 Adopted March 4, 1865 Designed by Arthur L. Rogers 
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#24. To: Pericles, Vicomte13 (#22)
The EU flag looks like The First Confederate Navy Jack, 1861–1863
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