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This isn’t doctored, as one might imagine. It’s from the US State Dept. Flickr Account. Are Americans finally fed up with Putin and Lavrov mocking and embarrassing the USA, as they have done for years?

Biden spox (spokesperson) Jen Psaki in her pink Soviet hat alongside Russian Foreign Minister Lovrov, when she was US Dept. of State spox (2014).

This is disrespectful to many countries that were formerly in the Soviet Bloc and in some countries this hat is illegal. While the average American might not know that a plain red star is offensive, this isn’t a plain red star. It’s also possible that those who grew up after the Cold War might not know the Hammer & Sickle, but her then boss, John Kerry, knows and someone working in Foreign Affairs, like then US Dept. of State spokesperson Jennifer Psaki, should know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols
Non-communist uses of the plain red star: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirnaer_Ruderverein_1872 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.Pellegrino
Even the plain red star was considered offensive during the Cold War by Polish refugees.


“U.S. Department of State Spokesperson Psaki Poses in a New Hat With Russian Counterpart and Their Respective Bosses

U.S. Department of State Spokesperson Jennifer Psaki — sporting a shapka, or fur hat with ear flaps, given to her by Russian counterpart Maria Zakharova — stands with Zakharova between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Paris, France, on January 13, 2014. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]

Video clip of Jen Psaki saying she is taking her Hammer & Sickle adorned ushanka to the White House “MY PINK HAT … IT’S COMING WITH ME TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
Joe Biden’s White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has a history of wearing a Soviet Hammer & Sickle emblem while working for the Obama administration”. January 29, 2021

Video clip of Jen Psaki saying she is taking her Hammer & Sickle adorned ushanka to the White House

“Jen Paki telling Russian journalists that her Hammer & Sickle adorned ushanka-hat with her to WH” National Conservative Magazine, Premiered Jan 29, 2021
“White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling journalists that she would be taking her Hammer & Sickle adorned ushanka to the White House during a US State Department Press Conference on March 25th, 2015. For the full story click here”: https://bit.ly/36nXk8z https://youtu.be/u4ITsn7xHxQ

Laws on Soviet symbols:
“Latvia
In June 2013, the Latvian parliament approved a ban on the display of Soviet and Nazi symbols at all public events. The ban involves flags, anthems, uniforms, Nazi swastika, and the Soviet hammer and sickle.[28][29]
Lithuania
Lithuania banned Soviet and Nazi symbols in 2008 (Article 18818 of the Code of Administrative Offences) under the threat of a fine.[30] Collection, antiquarian trade and educational activities are exempt from the ban.[31] Article 5 of the Law on Meetings prohibits meetings involving Nazi and Soviet imagery.[32]
Moldova
In 2009, such a ban was proposed in Moldova by parliamentarian Oleg Serebryan,[citation needed] and the law came into effect in 2012.[33] The Constitutional Court of Moldova found it unconstitutional.[8]
Poland
In 2009, in Poland § 2 to 4 were added to Article 256, which ban “fascist, communist or other totalitarian symbols” unless used “as part of artistic, educational, collecting or academic activity.” On 19 July 2011, the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland found this ban partly unconstitutional due to the violation of freedom of expression.[34] In June 2017, Poland updated its “decommunization” legislation to include Soviet propaganda monuments, prompting negative reactions from the Russian government.[35] However, communist symbols are not prohibited by law in Poland.[36][37]
Romania
Law 51/1991, article 3. h) on the National Security of Romania considers the following as threats to national security: “the initiation, organisation, perpetration, or the supporting in any way of the totalitarian or extremist actions of a communist, fascist, iron guardist, or of any other origin, of the racial, anti-Semitic, revisionist, separatist actions that can endanger in any way the unity and territorial integrity of Romania, as well as the instigation to deeds that can put in, danger the order of the state governed by the rule of law”.[38] However, symbols are not specifically mentioned in the law.
Ukraine
In April 2015, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law banning communist and Nazi symbols.[42] Earlier, in 2012, the city of Lviv in Western Ukraine banned the public display of communist symbols.[1] On 17 December 2015, all communist parties were officially banned in Ukraine.[43] Singing or playing the former anthem of the Soviet Union or any other former anthems of the Soviet Republics is punishable with a sentence of up to five years in prison.[44] In July 2019, the Constitutional Court upheld the law, equating communism to Nazism.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bans_on_communist_symbols