attempting to intimidate as a way of masking its own fragility?
Noticed the images from eastern Ukraine of the people attempting to re-kickstart a soviet republic, Donetsk as Donetsk People’s Republic..
Check stuff like:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26919928
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/19/ukraine-donetsk-pro-russia-militants
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10775058/Ukraine-crisis-Inside-the-barricades-of-Donetsk-Peoples-Republic.html
http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/07/updates-on-the-situation-in-eastern-ukraine-from-unian/
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/04/ukraine-crisis-separatists-donetsk-people-republic-20144177535478448.html
http://rt.com/news/donetsk-republic-protestukraine-841/
Is it not that one common visual prop is the use of flags and a set of communal recognised colour pattern?
Given the fragility of the entities involved, it seems also that these illustrate how the amount of flags is a sort of indication how a regime, an entity, feels and senses its own reality.. The more prominent the symbols are – perhaps the weaker their supporters actually are, or fear to become..