The elderly woman was accused of wearing Soviet symbols banned by Kiev as she brought flowers to a WWII memorial Ukrainian police have detained an elderly woman who went to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame memorial in Kiev on Victory Day, wearing a Soviet-era side cap with a red star. The star, as well as other symbols and names associated with Ukraine’s Soviet past, have been banned by Ukraine’s notorious 2015 decommunization laws. Police officers confronted Galina Savchenko, 85, at the