It's definitely a version of the old USSR emblem. I wonder if it could it be from some kind of news-related graphic or trailer connected to all the recent events between Russia and Ukraine?
Communist Yugoslavia used similar coats-of arms. The wreath around the one in the cap reminds me of the Yugoslav-era emblem of Monetengro (but it's not quite it):
I don't think there's any doubting the communist symbolism now, although none of the images proposed is a particularly close match.
To me it looks like a couple embracing in front of the emblem, with the man holding one arm over his head, though it's all too easy to see things that aren't really there when there's so little to go on. Also interesting is the fact that star is not straight, suggesting distortion or that it's based on a "natural" image/photo, rather than a graphic.
Probably just coincidence, but
The Spy Who Loved Me
was on ITV yesterday, which features Soviet characters (though not much Soviet iconography, IIRC) fairly prominently.
Does Erricson Transmission supply play-out for any Eastern European/Former Russian states from the tx centre in Chiswick?
Maybe a bleed through, and got into the ITV tx chain momentarly that way?
Unless of course, Putin having completed the annexing of Western Ukraine now has the far from disputed territory of Upper Ground, SE1 now in his sights - and this was the first brief salvo the new landgrab.
