Little flag bearer

[topum]

They had the streets decorated with flags for the New Wine Day in Tiraspol, Transnistria (btw, these are Russian not Moldovan or Transnistrian flag colours but I want to cover this in a separate post).

This little dude liked the flags and took one from this street decoration (he chose red).



And then he just walked home with it. And yeah, that statue is Lenin.

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[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

I'd have chosen red too.  Kid has good taste in colours. 

Ah Lenin.  The saint of communism. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

They got rid of all their Lenins everywhere in Moldova except in self-governed Transnistria, they kept all theirs in place.

[erychan86.livejournal.com]

Cute!

[topum.livejournal.com]

He was the bravest of the lot and was the first to take a flag. And then other boys started doing it too.

[darkoshi]

He looks young to be wandering around alone. Were his parents around? I wonder if they gave him the idea to take a flag, or if he'll get home and they'll be like, "Stealing is wrong! You'd better go back and return it."

[topum.livejournal.com]

He was with a couple of other boys, you can see two others in the first photo. They are easy going here about this stuff, kids roam free and explore the world alone (we let our nephews and nieces who visited us here do the same and join the village's "gang"). The are also too relaxed to berate that kid and call it 'stealing'. For them it is just like "Oh well boys be boys, they took a couple of flags from the street decoration, usual thing. Relax. Live a little.". That would be a typical attitude. They are into a bit more natural and relaxed living here and are completely oblivious of the fact that they are actually living in a total mispronouning and misgendering holocaust and microagrssions and triggers hell. I am thoroughly enjoying it here.

[darkoshi]

I can imagine that. It just reminded me of an incident when I was very young. Walking out of a grocery store with my parents and pulling something from under my jacket, saying "Look what I got!" They turned straight around and marched me back into the store to put it back.

Mispronouning? In the first photo, I was actually thinking that the face looks like it could be either a girl or a boy. Most people in most places are oblivious to mispronouning, misgendering and triggering, unless they are on the receiving end.

I can humorously imagine the event organizer speaking to one of the on-site people. "How could you miss such a big red flag that our decorations were being stolen!" hehe :)

[topum.livejournal.com]

It was a boy.

Ha ha, they would never care about these flags being stolen, they probably had written them off before they put them in the streets assuming that the kids would take many of them. They probably cost them 5c a piece here and not worth guarding, storing till next year or making a fuss about.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Somehow, my compatriots always chose red. I don´t know why.

You maybe heard this Russian joke: "whatever we are trying to make, we got Kalashnikov in result".

[topum.livejournal.com]

Haha, no I haven't heard that joke. I have never shot Kalashnikov but I shot Saiga here.
Red is a special colour also in many parts of Asia. They would choose red every time in China too for example I think.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, when I go to dine in a Chinese, I realize that my eyes are going to eat a lot of red.

Asian mentality is in general more collective. "We" is more important than "I". Hence the red choice.

[topum.livejournal.com]

i don't think they associate red colour with collectivism / socialism / communism there. Their relationship with red predates all of those by quite a bit.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

I'm joking, of course. It's a deeper thing than just a commie colour.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, communists hijacked red colour.