New details about the grandmother with the Soviet flag are known/Collage of Channel 24
Russians actively use the image of a grandmother with the flag of the USSR in their propaganda. On the other hand, her life history is not of much interest to the invaders.
The life of Anna Mikhailovna, who lived in the vicinity of Kharkov, turned out to be tragic. This was told by an employee of the Center for Strategic Communications, who met with a woman.
All grandmother's children died
My grandmother has a surname Ivanova. She took it from her second husband, with whom she still lives. In the second marriage, Anna Ivanova had two sons, and the woman had 2 daughters from her first husband. However, they all died.
According to the grandmother, one girl was “burned” by her mother-in-law. Anna Mikhailovna claims that the woman allegedly put her on the stove. Sons were killed in foreign villages under unknown circumstances.
I believed the priest of the Moscow Patriarchate
Grandmother says she was convinced that the red flag was Russian. In addition, she believed in what the priest of the UOC-MP told her. However, she has now drawn her own conclusions. Anna Mikhailovna admitted that Putin only needs land, and he doesn't care about Ukrainians.
I understand the guy who trampled on the red flag. They protect us, they die, and here I am with this flag,” the woman added.
The image of a grandmother in Russian propaganda
A grandmother with a Soviet flag went out to the Ukrainian military, probably thinking that it's the Russians. The propagandists immediately picked up on this incident and used it as a symbol of aggression. They have already erected a monument to the grandmother with a flag in Mariupol.
However, the woman explains that she was mistaken. She feels like a “traitor” and does not want to be used by the invaders. She now curses the invaders, because they fired at her house. The Ukrainian military asks not to despise the grandmother. Even if she had a positive attitude towards the Russian occupiers before, she has now changed her mind and thrown the flag away.
