Look at the second photo in the article. Batman apparently has decided to go to work for the Russians.
Either that, or they switched their national drink to rum.
Well, maybe a Russian. They’re not supposed to be Commies anymore
Reporter: Comrade, how will we call him
Commissioner Grodian: He gave us a sign (Turns on Bat-Signal, shows it on perpetually overcast Moscow clouds and across the cebula-domes of St. Basil’s.)
Is he really prepared to work for communists?
I think the Ruskies use a bat to symbolize alcohol, same as Puerto Ricans with their rum.
I want the inevitable t-shirt.
So we could say Russia is “bat country?”
“Quick comrade Robin, to the Bat-Tractor!”
Did anyone else read the title and immediately think, “No, Batman’s a scientist.”
Just me then? Okay.
“Next, Eeeefeningvear!”
Anyone read Red Son? In it, Kal-El lands in the Ukraine rather than Kansas and grows up to become Stalin’s ultimate weapon.
Batman was a kid who saw his parents murdered by Stalin’s men, and becomes a rebel against Communist rule. Superman defeats him, but rebels keep popping up under the mantle of the Bat over and over again.
But can he defeat commie Superman?
Well if you read Red Son he did. But taking out Superman AND Wonder Woman was too much for him, and he maytared himself with a bomb in his gut.
And I guess that symbol explains alot of what he was uptoo during the 52.
Personally, my favorite part about Batmankopf (no, I’m not kidding) was his fuzzy hat. 
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
Boy at corn stand: It’s over there.
UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK
Russian U.N. representative: The Soviet Union is willing to give amnesty to your wayward vessel.
American U.N. representative: Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.
Russian U.N. representative: That’s what we wanted you to think!
In Russia, bats watch your signals!
I can’t believe it took sixteen posts for that to come up. I’m actually ashamed of myself.
As am I. The one time it’s actually Orwellianly appropriate and I didn’t do it in the first post 
Putin! Na na na na na na na na Putin! Putin, Putin, Putin!
If he’s prepared.
And he will be.