In Putin's modern Russia there are still many throwbacks to

Communist USSR times often, it seems, fueled by the very strong nationism that is clear for all to see. It seems strange to me that modern Russians hark back to those times when things in the former USSR were not nearly so free and westernised as they are today, but, that is just my thoughts on the matter! Here is a classic example of that very strong nationalistic symbolism on the side of an RZD train. This particular example, on the side of EMU ED4M-451 standing at Moscow's Kiyevsky station, is, in fact, a giant vinyl of a World War II Soviet order awarded for the highest acts of gallantry in combat during the USSR's war with the Third Reich. Around the hammer and sickle are the words 'Patriotic War'.