It's interesting how the flag has taken on a life of its own outside America. We debate its meaning here, but outside the US, the meaning is clear.

Pictured is Gabriel Doroshin, descendant of Tsar Nicholas I, hoisting what was, until recently, a strictly American symbol.

50 years ago, to say a photo exists of a Romanov holding up the Confederate Battle Flag would just seem absurd, but here we are today and it really doesn't seem all that strange.