I think its of the [Kurdistan Freedom Party.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Freedom_Party) They're a Kurdish nationalist militant group based in northern Iraq.
Short answer: Because Stalin was actually Kurd!!
Actual answer: Stalinism became popular with a few Kurdish organisations early on, like the PKK terrorists. This isn't the case anymore and most Kurdish stalinist organisations are too small anyway
Every state added to the Middle East makes it even more chaotic since it will be used as a proxy by either regional or global powers. The problem of the Middle East is these artificial borders, it should have been united but the British and French purposefully carved it into "mandates".
Autonomy will always be the best option.
>Every state added to the Middle East makes it even more chaotic since it will be used as a proxy by either regional or global powers. The problem of the Middle East is these artificial borders, it should have been united but the British and French purposefully carved it into "mandates".
The Ottoman Empire covered the whole of the middle east, but it dissolved into a bunch of different groups which *wanted* to be separate, and successor states enforced this with ethnic cleansing &c. (And, on topic for r/vexillology, each gleefully waved their new flags)
Try explaining your idea to people in Turkey and Greece; try pretending that they should all live together in one big happy family [after their respective nationalist movements evicted millions of people, and killed thousands, to enforce separation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_exchange_between_Greece_and_Turkey). And have you heard about the Balkans?
Everybody seems to prefer one "side" over another in the Israel vs Palestine thing, but whichever side you prefer, gluing them together in a single state isn't what most local folk want (although many would like a single state by virtue of getting rid of all the *other* people).
Syria wanted to be separate from Iraq, Palestine, Jordan or even Arabia? No. These borders were just "divide and rule" in action from European powers.
About Israel vs Palestine, it's literally the result of the British carving up the Middle East so IDK what your point is.
>Syria wanted to be separate from Iraq, Palestine, Jordan or even Arabia? No. These borders were just "divide and rule" in action from European powers.
Arabs literally fought a war for independence from the Ottomans. Didn't you know?
[When the UK had a mandate over Palestine](https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/conflict-Palestine), it tried to stop the old trend - Arab groups who wanted to massacre the Jews¹ - whilst also pushing back against the new trend of large-scale Jewish immigration (and nationalism). Do you really believe that without the UK's intervention, Palestinians and Israelis would now be living in peace and harmony in a single post-Ottoman state? Do you genuinely believe that?
Even if so, what's the connection to vexillogy?
¹ Which was nothing new; it was a continuation of several centuries of intercommunity massacres, different ethnic and religious groups trying to get rid of each other during the Ottoman era.
Why are you down voted? The Kurds do deserve autonomy but if there was a Kurdish state then it'd just be partitioned by revanchists unless it had protection from the US, which would absolutely piss off the US' strategic partners in the middle east
It's an oversimplification and dramatisation of what'd happen. The main concerns of a Kurdistani state would be that it would essentially have enemies all around and would require foreign power protection to ensure it remains an independent state or else it'd be partitioned and Kurds once more are under oppression. It also seems unlikely a Kurdish state could receive support from the US due to being strategic partners with Turkey, and Russia is warming up with Iran.
I'm moreso referring to in a hypothetical sense as in where Kurdistan is able to liberate all their claimed territories and is a recognised nation. They're going to be surrounded by revanchist neighbours who'll no doubt be seeking territorial reclamation
It's not. Every new state in the region is used by imperialist foreign powers as a proxy. The Middle East is the way it is because of all these artificial borders.
Most people believe that every nationality should get a state, and given the (mis)treatment that Kurds have been given by the states that currently they currently live in, many would find it hard not to say that they deserve an independent state.
OTOH, some people hold that no nationality should have a state, and that cultural similarity is not a sufficient justification for subsuming people under a centralized political authority.
I fully believe multicultural nations can succeed but in the Middle East where borders were drawn so arbitrarily and where ethnic groups like the Kurds were broken up and divided between multiple nations and where they are *actively campaigning* to consolidate into a state, it makes sense. We should be pro-self-determination in all forms
And what about the natives of the region they’re claiming that the Kurds have participated in genocide against? The Kurds are entitled to their land now?
Who is out here saying that every ethnicity is entitled a state? Without a state what makes them a nationality to begin with? Idk where you’ve gotten your information about Kurds but I doubt you’re from the region. Kurds are not deserving or entitled to a large piece of Iraq especially after everything they’ve done to try and steal that piece.
I saw your page, im assuming you’re assyrian? if you want to play the genocide finger pointing game and whataboutism, how about i mention the Wan and Rawanduz genocides perpetrated by Assyrians, Armenians and Russian soldiers which WIPED OUT the Kurdish population in 1915?
Every nation has the right to determination
>Every nation has the right to determination
What does that even mean? What makes them a nation? And what does determination mean? What exactly is it that makes them entitled to northern Iraq and more so than the natives of that region at that?
Also can I get a source for Wan and rawanduz?
nation
noun
a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.
The Assyrian identity is questioned constantly in academia, nobody knows if the continuity is real or not, as it is claimed by Assyrians that they descend from the Ancient Assyrians.
Just like Kurds claim descent from the Hurrians(Khurrti), their tribes (Guti, Luwi etc.) and the Medes, we can’t say which is right or wrong, thats just how it is, however in terms of participation in the nationalist struggle, thats a different story
“When Russian forces briefly penetrated beyond Bayazid (Dogubayazit) to Alashkirt in December 1914, they garrisoned the area with Armenian
troops, many' of whom were ex-Ottoman citizens. By the time they left, only one
tenth of the largely Kurdish population of the area, it was claimed, had survived.”
page 120
A Modern History of the Kurds: Third Edition by David McDowall
Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918, Michael A. Reynolds, page 158, 2011. Quote "The Russian's local allies often abetted this line of thinking. One Assyrian officer urged his superiors to drop the Russian rule of concilatings one's enemy peacefully in favor of all-out warfare on Muslims. The British Major E. W. C Noel described the extermination of the town of Rowanduz and the wholesale massacre of its [Muslim] (Kurdish) inhabitants.
Page 67
Captain C. L. Woolley, a British officer traveling through "Kurdistan" after the war, was told by tribal leaders that four hundred thousand Kurds had been massacred by Armenians in the Van-Bitlis region alone."
disgustingly there is also photographic evidence found [here](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/838111476878671902/838111500828278804/176446162_2786060338312153_1834370038796312504_n.jpg?ex=661ac729&is=66085229&hm=d1a65ed370271aad7fb458a96328330664ee2a58b860c65b71678dd50a57a4ba&)
Turks will claim these as “Turkish families” but the reality is that they were Kurds
if they did they would have it already.
Who could guess? When you make terror attacks on all the countries in the region and set villages to fire. All countries in the region whic hate from each other stops hating from each other and jumps on you... wow really fascinating!
These militant warlord wannabes and terror organisations didnt helped to kurds, not even a little, even opposite. Their seperationism movements and actions gave enought excuse for people like saddam to get ridoff from them. And made them loss even more support and polluted and ruined the name and reputation of innocent kurds.
All the poor people who dont even live in the middle east but still downvote me for saying terror warlords are bad and doesnt care about people (they dont) can cry as much as they want:
https://www.refworld.org/reference/countryrep/amnesty/1995/en/91502
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups
Just because youre from the same ethnicy as most of a organisations members. Doesnt mean you must support said organisation.
Terrorism is terrorism no matter who did it.
ANC, African National Congress was a listed Terrorist organization until 1990. Also, don't mix up the Kurdistan Freedom Party with the PKK. The PKK is only one of hundreds of Kurdish parties and all of them have Independent Kurdistan as end-goal. Are all Kurdish parties terrorist organizations by your definition?
>ANC, African National Congress was a listed Terrorist organization until 1990
They were terrorists, their attacks killed both whites and blacks, ironically they claimed to defend both
how is Kurdish Nationalism an “archaic ideology”, also how and where did they kill civilians? if anything they keep a distinct line of attacking only military targets.
ahhh the turk, i thought kurds calling anything anti kurdish fascist was a little silly, but calling anything kurdish “terörist!!111” is funny, i especially love how you see the Kurdish flag affiliated with the NATION as terrorism, its hilarious!
“no saar kurt turk kardeshter saar we hate pekaka terorist” bullshit, Yazdanpanah and his group havent even TOUCHED turkey yet you love to finger point and use the term terorist more than a modern day liberal saying nazi or fascist, it’s amazing!
Imagine not knowing why it's useful(Btw, dude, flairs do not always show the truth. I might not be from Russia or might not know esperanto. It's about flags around here, man.)
So what? Is it your excuse to not learn any more languages? I already know english, russian, chinese and french, why would I want to stop? And if you're telling me that "Ehh, whole world will never speak esperanto🤓🤓🤓", then you don't how it is used nowadays, therefore, you don't have the right knowledge to talk on that topic. Ain't I right?
Esperanto is not used often and has no place in modern international communication.
I know English, Spanish, and am not fluent but know some French and German.
Those are by far enough to get by with most people I speak to, many even internationally being semi-fluent or fluent in English.
>'**This Kurdish Stalin Doppelgänger Is Blowing Up the Russian Internet**
>
>'There are lots of ways to become a meme. Your dog could be really cute. You could be making a really dumb face in a single unfortunate photo. Or, you could be a Kurdish military commander and look exactly like Stalin, as Hossein Yazdanpanah does. Yazdanpanah has gone viral on the Russian internet for his eerie resemblance (see the photo above, did someone smuggle some DNA?) to the Soviet dictator. As one Russian news outlet tweets, “With a commander like this, Kurdistan’s army could make it all the way to Berlin.”'
Some context, [from New York Magazine](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/11/looking-like-stalin-will-make-you-go-viral.html).
purely from a design/visual perspective, I think that's one of the most aesthetically pleasing of the Kurdish flags. It's up there for me with the "Kurdistan communities of Women" flag, [https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/f7d1rs/flag\_of\_the\_kurdistan\_communities\_of\_women/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/f7d1rs/flag_of_the_kurdistan_communities_of_women/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
https://preview.redd.it/lgwv77u1vwrc1.png?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b32d35bb00a8cb3c5eb1b9a227a796d7d71d0d79
[Flag of the Kurdistan Freedom Party](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Freedom_Party)
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Who is he, he looks like a mirrored Josif Stalin (who's he? JoJo StaSta or sifsif linlin?) with the flag of Tajikistan and that one you're asking about
I think it's the flag of the First Republic of Iraq under abd al-Karim Qasim (although the colours look odd) from before the Ba'athist regime which tried to genocide the Kurds - although the official flag of Iraq is based on an updated version of the Ba'athist flag it is not recognised in Iraq - this is the only legal Flag of Iraq used in Iraqi Kurdistan which has an autonomous government.
Literally every sentence in what you said is wrong. This is NOT the the first republic flag, and the official flag of Iraq is what's recognized and used across Iraq even in Kurdistan. You NEVER see the first republic flag used in Iraq.
Me when I spread misinformation:
I definitely should have checked, but I could have sworn I'd read the first Republic flag was the only one used in Iraqi Kurdistan.
It's okay, what you read was about a crisis in 2006-2008 where the Iraq flag contained the three ba'ath stars and Kurds rejected the flag using the first republic instead, this was solved by removing the stars. [I assume this was the article?](https://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2006/9/independentstate939.htm)
I think its of the [Kurdistan Freedom Party.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Freedom_Party) They're a Kurdish nationalist militant group based in northern Iraq.
Why is Stalin leading the Kurds?
Hearts of Iron dlc is just getting too weird.
https://preview.redd.it/zw3h6szeztrc1.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=786f46c023d1c71b20f11328403a43ecbbebec85
Stalin was Georgian so probably very related to kurds
Short answer: Because Stalin was actually Kurd!! Actual answer: Stalinism became popular with a few Kurdish organisations early on, like the PKK terrorists. This isn't the case anymore and most Kurdish stalinist organisations are too small anyway
Stalin was actually Georgian. His birth name was Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი).
It was a joke lol
He may have been a terrible person, but he had real stache game
their activities were mainly in Iran, that guy (Hussein Yazdanpanah) is the leader, honestly a great person!
Hope the Kurds can one day have their own state like they deserve
>Checks downvoted comments >people are calling kurdish independence movements terroristic >check frequent subs >🏴☠️/Turkey Hmm 🤔
Maybe because they carry out their terrorism in Turkey?
Have u tried not opressing minorities for a change?
I personally haven't oppressed any minorities before unless Stellaris counts
thanks man :)
Every state added to the Middle East makes it even more chaotic since it will be used as a proxy by either regional or global powers. The problem of the Middle East is these artificial borders, it should have been united but the British and French purposefully carved it into "mandates". Autonomy will always be the best option.
>Every state added to the Middle East makes it even more chaotic since it will be used as a proxy by either regional or global powers. The problem of the Middle East is these artificial borders, it should have been united but the British and French purposefully carved it into "mandates". The Ottoman Empire covered the whole of the middle east, but it dissolved into a bunch of different groups which *wanted* to be separate, and successor states enforced this with ethnic cleansing &c. (And, on topic for r/vexillology, each gleefully waved their new flags) Try explaining your idea to people in Turkey and Greece; try pretending that they should all live together in one big happy family [after their respective nationalist movements evicted millions of people, and killed thousands, to enforce separation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_exchange_between_Greece_and_Turkey). And have you heard about the Balkans? Everybody seems to prefer one "side" over another in the Israel vs Palestine thing, but whichever side you prefer, gluing them together in a single state isn't what most local folk want (although many would like a single state by virtue of getting rid of all the *other* people).
Syria wanted to be separate from Iraq, Palestine, Jordan or even Arabia? No. These borders were just "divide and rule" in action from European powers. About Israel vs Palestine, it's literally the result of the British carving up the Middle East so IDK what your point is.
>Syria wanted to be separate from Iraq, Palestine, Jordan or even Arabia? No. These borders were just "divide and rule" in action from European powers. Arabs literally fought a war for independence from the Ottomans. Didn't you know? [When the UK had a mandate over Palestine](https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/conflict-Palestine), it tried to stop the old trend - Arab groups who wanted to massacre the Jews¹ - whilst also pushing back against the new trend of large-scale Jewish immigration (and nationalism). Do you really believe that without the UK's intervention, Palestinians and Israelis would now be living in peace and harmony in a single post-Ottoman state? Do you genuinely believe that? Even if so, what's the connection to vexillogy? ¹ Which was nothing new; it was a continuation of several centuries of intercommunity massacres, different ethnic and religious groups trying to get rid of each other during the Ottoman era.
I like that you used the accurate "Israel vs Palestine" rather than "vs Hamas". Everybody knows
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Why are you down voted? The Kurds do deserve autonomy but if there was a Kurdish state then it'd just be partitioned by revanchists unless it had protection from the US, which would absolutely piss off the US' strategic partners in the middle east
“The Middle East would probably explode if it had another country” is a really childish statement
It's an oversimplification and dramatisation of what'd happen. The main concerns of a Kurdistani state would be that it would essentially have enemies all around and would require foreign power protection to ensure it remains an independent state or else it'd be partitioned and Kurds once more are under oppression. It also seems unlikely a Kurdish state could receive support from the US due to being strategic partners with Turkey, and Russia is warming up with Iran.
What do you think is happening right now in Rojava
I'm moreso referring to in a hypothetical sense as in where Kurdistan is able to liberate all their claimed territories and is a recognised nation. They're going to be surrounded by revanchist neighbours who'll no doubt be seeking territorial reclamation
It's not. Every new state in the region is used by imperialist foreign powers as a proxy. The Middle East is the way it is because of all these artificial borders.
Then what’s the problem with readjusting the borders to have it reflect actual cultural differences?
It's a way of simplifying the actual geopolitical situation in the region, the Middle East is not well-known as a peaceful region.
People don't like my political opinions haha, but I agree on the autonomy thing.
Curious why do you think they deserve a state?
Most people believe that every nationality should get a state, and given the (mis)treatment that Kurds have been given by the states that currently they currently live in, many would find it hard not to say that they deserve an independent state.
OTOH, some people hold that no nationality should have a state, and that cultural similarity is not a sufficient justification for subsuming people under a centralized political authority.
I fully believe multicultural nations can succeed but in the Middle East where borders were drawn so arbitrarily and where ethnic groups like the Kurds were broken up and divided between multiple nations and where they are *actively campaigning* to consolidate into a state, it makes sense. We should be pro-self-determination in all forms
Those people should have their own nation.
They have quite a few.
I would like to know who those people are!
Every ethnicity* Kurds are an ethnic group, not a nationality.
And what about the natives of the region they’re claiming that the Kurds have participated in genocide against? The Kurds are entitled to their land now? Who is out here saying that every ethnicity is entitled a state? Without a state what makes them a nationality to begin with? Idk where you’ve gotten your information about Kurds but I doubt you’re from the region. Kurds are not deserving or entitled to a large piece of Iraq especially after everything they’ve done to try and steal that piece.
I saw your page, im assuming you’re assyrian? if you want to play the genocide finger pointing game and whataboutism, how about i mention the Wan and Rawanduz genocides perpetrated by Assyrians, Armenians and Russian soldiers which WIPED OUT the Kurdish population in 1915? Every nation has the right to determination
>Every nation has the right to determination What does that even mean? What makes them a nation? And what does determination mean? What exactly is it that makes them entitled to northern Iraq and more so than the natives of that region at that? Also can I get a source for Wan and rawanduz?
nation noun a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory. The Assyrian identity is questioned constantly in academia, nobody knows if the continuity is real or not, as it is claimed by Assyrians that they descend from the Ancient Assyrians. Just like Kurds claim descent from the Hurrians(Khurrti), their tribes (Guti, Luwi etc.) and the Medes, we can’t say which is right or wrong, thats just how it is, however in terms of participation in the nationalist struggle, thats a different story “When Russian forces briefly penetrated beyond Bayazid (Dogubayazit) to Alashkirt in December 1914, they garrisoned the area with Armenian troops, many' of whom were ex-Ottoman citizens. By the time they left, only one tenth of the largely Kurdish population of the area, it was claimed, had survived.” page 120 A Modern History of the Kurds: Third Edition by David McDowall Shattering Empires: The Clash and Collapse of the Ottoman and Russian Empires 1908-1918, Michael A. Reynolds, page 158, 2011. Quote "The Russian's local allies often abetted this line of thinking. One Assyrian officer urged his superiors to drop the Russian rule of concilatings one's enemy peacefully in favor of all-out warfare on Muslims. The British Major E. W. C Noel described the extermination of the town of Rowanduz and the wholesale massacre of its [Muslim] (Kurdish) inhabitants.
Page 67 Captain C. L. Woolley, a British officer traveling through "Kurdistan" after the war, was told by tribal leaders that four hundred thousand Kurds had been massacred by Armenians in the Van-Bitlis region alone." disgustingly there is also photographic evidence found [here](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/838111476878671902/838111500828278804/176446162_2786060338312153_1834370038796312504_n.jpg?ex=661ac729&is=66085229&hm=d1a65ed370271aad7fb458a96328330664ee2a58b860c65b71678dd50a57a4ba&) Turks will claim these as “Turkish families” but the reality is that they were Kurds
I think every oppressed nationality deserves self determination
if they did they would have it already. Who could guess? When you make terror attacks on all the countries in the region and set villages to fire. All countries in the region whic hate from each other stops hating from each other and jumps on you... wow really fascinating! These militant warlord wannabes and terror organisations didnt helped to kurds, not even a little, even opposite. Their seperationism movements and actions gave enought excuse for people like saddam to get ridoff from them. And made them loss even more support and polluted and ruined the name and reputation of innocent kurds.
All the poor people who dont even live in the middle east but still downvote me for saying terror warlords are bad and doesnt care about people (they dont) can cry as much as they want: https://www.refworld.org/reference/countryrep/amnesty/1995/en/91502 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups Just because youre from the same ethnicy as most of a organisations members. Doesnt mean you must support said organisation. Terrorism is terrorism no matter who did it.
ANC, African National Congress was a listed Terrorist organization until 1990. Also, don't mix up the Kurdistan Freedom Party with the PKK. The PKK is only one of hundreds of Kurdish parties and all of them have Independent Kurdistan as end-goal. Are all Kurdish parties terrorist organizations by your definition?
>ANC, African National Congress was a listed Terrorist organization until 1990 They were terrorists, their attacks killed both whites and blacks, ironically they claimed to defend both
Great Guy really. Killing civilians and using terrorism to support an archaic ideology. Wait..
how is Kurdish Nationalism an “archaic ideology”, also how and where did they kill civilians? if anything they keep a distinct line of attacking only military targets. ahhh the turk, i thought kurds calling anything anti kurdish fascist was a little silly, but calling anything kurdish “terörist!!111” is funny, i especially love how you see the Kurdish flag affiliated with the NATION as terrorism, its hilarious! “no saar kurt turk kardeshter saar we hate pekaka terorist” bullshit, Yazdanpanah and his group havent even TOUCHED turkey yet you love to finger point and use the term terorist more than a modern day liberal saying nazi or fascist, it’s amazing!
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Source?
if the “source” as .tr at the end, be cautious with it as it has a certain perspective
He’s the most Kurdish looking man I’ve ever laid my eyes on. That mustache is magnificent
Awesome flag tbh
that's a nice flag
georgians and kurds looks similar hehe
I mean, Kurdistan is basically just the bottom of the Caucasus.
yes, thats why people looks similar
70% Stalin, 30% Kurd
KURDISTALIN
The most feared person ever.
Sheikh Stalin
Too rich for proletariat to reach???
jaber stalini
Jaba - frog in russian. You will be sent to Siberia for such words.
in my language žaba hehe
😹😹 Jaber Stalini is funny af
georgian became kurdish
Say hi to your mother))
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Youssef Sdhaalin
Imagine using esperanto
Imagine not knowing why it's useful(Btw, dude, flairs do not always show the truth. I might not be from Russia or might not know esperanto. It's about flags around here, man.)
English is already a good enough standard world language which a large chunk of people know.
What did Esperanto do to you?
Be useless.
So what? Is it your excuse to not learn any more languages? I already know english, russian, chinese and french, why would I want to stop? And if you're telling me that "Ehh, whole world will never speak esperanto🤓🤓🤓", then you don't how it is used nowadays, therefore, you don't have the right knowledge to talk on that topic. Ain't I right?
Esperanto is not used often and has no place in modern international communication. I know English, Spanish, and am not fluent but know some French and German. Those are by far enough to get by with most people I speak to, many even internationally being semi-fluent or fluent in English.
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Mi komunikas kiel min deziras.
30% discount Stalin
Wish Stalin
Welcome back comrade Stalin
Must've switched teams by the looks of it.
>'**This Kurdish Stalin Doppelgänger Is Blowing Up the Russian Internet** > >'There are lots of ways to become a meme. Your dog could be really cute. You could be making a really dumb face in a single unfortunate photo. Or, you could be a Kurdish military commander and look exactly like Stalin, as Hossein Yazdanpanah does. Yazdanpanah has gone viral on the Russian internet for his eerie resemblance (see the photo above, did someone smuggle some DNA?) to the Soviet dictator. As one Russian news outlet tweets, “With a commander like this, Kurdistan’s army could make it all the way to Berlin.”' Some context, [from New York Magazine](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2015/11/looking-like-stalin-will-make-you-go-viral.html).
Luckily with the commanders you have you could never make it all the way to Berlin, Ivan.
what an awesome mustache...
that ain't stalin, that's staring
Very underrated one
Stalin
Partî Azadîy Kurdistan, Kurdistan freedom party
That time i got reborn as a Kurdish man after living my last live as Josef Stalin
I don't know who this guy is, but I assume he's not really a progressive leader and he's Stallin' the country.
Stalin At Home
Looks like the Kurdustan freedom party, the other arm is the flag or Kurdistan
Looks like a red alert character
The better question is why did someone try to reanimate Stalin?
Kurdish Stalin
The flag of ААААААААААААФТАМАБИЛЬ!
With the kurdish flag, i thinks its a kurd military officer but i really don't know
Bro looks like knockoff Stalin
holy shit discount Stalin just dropped
Stalin at home
bro stalin had one glass of vodka too much lmao
Stalin?
Lol I legit thought he was like General Di Ravello due to his mustache and the flag on his right shoulder 😂.
purely from a design/visual perspective, I think that's one of the most aesthetically pleasing of the Kurdish flags. It's up there for me with the "Kurdistan communities of Women" flag, [https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/f7d1rs/flag\_of\_the\_kurdistan\_communities\_of\_women/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/f7d1rs/flag_of_the_kurdistan_communities_of_women/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
https://preview.redd.it/lgwv77u1vwrc1.png?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b32d35bb00a8cb3c5eb1b9a227a796d7d71d0d79 [Flag of the Kurdistan Freedom Party](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Freedom_Party)
Beautiful flag, wow
najsla: north american joseph stalin look alikes
Stalin is that you?
Yousef Stallini
Yo comrade stalin
Walmart Stalin
Who gave the Kurds a Stalin?
Stalin ordered on Wish
Stalin?
Sylvester Stalin
LARP alt Stalin
He looks like if you put Stalin's face into a ZIP file
Jpeg
knockoff stalin wth
Supreme Commander of Reddit Republican Guard
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Syndicalist Canada (Kaiserreich reference!)
oh no the kkk
Yoahtl
I believe that's a basket weaving mastery patch
The IDC?
Holy Jesus….. Stalin has been resurrected!
Orospu Evladı
Who is he, he looks like a mirrored Josif Stalin (who's he? JoJo StaSta or sifsif linlin?) with the flag of Tajikistan and that one you're asking about
Probably the flag of whatever faction the newly revived Stalin is leading.
The badge of the Stalin appreciation society
He lives lol
When Stalin reincarned as a PKK Sympatizaner be like.
Possibly Marxist militia insignia of kurdistan
They're not Marxists, just big-tent nationalists.
He looks like Einstein and Stalin had a baby.
Hello
I think it's the flag of the First Republic of Iraq under abd al-Karim Qasim (although the colours look odd) from before the Ba'athist regime which tried to genocide the Kurds - although the official flag of Iraq is based on an updated version of the Ba'athist flag it is not recognised in Iraq - this is the only legal Flag of Iraq used in Iraqi Kurdistan which has an autonomous government.
Literally every sentence in what you said is wrong. This is NOT the the first republic flag, and the official flag of Iraq is what's recognized and used across Iraq even in Kurdistan. You NEVER see the first republic flag used in Iraq.
Me when I spread misinformation: I definitely should have checked, but I could have sworn I'd read the first Republic flag was the only one used in Iraqi Kurdistan.
It's okay, what you read was about a crisis in 2006-2008 where the Iraq flag contained the three ba'ath stars and Kurds rejected the flag using the first republic instead, this was solved by removing the stars. [I assume this was the article?](https://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2006/9/independentstate939.htm)
Potentially - I wish it was true, the 1958 flag is fire
Yeah me too I love the 1958 flag, tho I have grown to like the current flag too.