"a double-headed eagle with a hammer in one claw and a sickle in the other"...

[jcf]

Russian graphic designer Yevgeny Dobrovinsky's slightly facetious suggestion of the perfect symbol for today's Russia and a comment on the mix of Communist-era styles and Tsarist emblems common in post-fall Russian graphic design.

So taking that image, and current events, as a starting point where can it be pushed?

Jon

[Just call me Ray]

It sounds like Jerry Pournelle already beat you to the punch 40 years ago with his "CoDominion" series.

[jcf]

It sounds like Jerry Pournelle already beat you to the punch 40 years ago with his "CoDominion" series.

Oh woe is me.

Actually I have read some of Pournelle's Co-Dominium stuff over the years, and Ken McLeod's (far superior writing and stories) "Fall Revolution"
series.

Anyhow Pournelle's Co-Dominium posits a world controlled by allied US and USSR, a big difference from what I'm thinking about.
There is no reason to believe that the modern Russia and the US will ever become allies, why would they?

I am simply musing about the designer's comment and how it could be physically reflected in modern Russia.
A Neo-Tsarist Empire with a Communist core? vice versa? Or one could cynically observe that Putin's Russia is both
and no whiffery is required.

Jon