To: Triple
The clenched fist sign was popularized in the 1930s as a Communist/leftist counterpoint to Mussolini's stiff armed "Roman salute", which the Nazis adopted in their "Heil Hitler" salute. You can see pictures of Stalin giving the clenched fist sign at public ceremonies starting in the 1930s.
There may have been some earlier manifestations of the "clenched fist" salute, but I am not aware of any.
32 posted on
10/17/2011 8:21:57 AM PDT by
Wallace T.
(Shoot, shovel, and shut up)
To: Wallace T.
This one is the clenched fist with the 2 fingers up, in what is commonly thought of as a peace sign. It is seemingly modeled after the international socialists clenched fist.
The socialist signs are all over the OWS movement. I was wondering if this particular one had a specific group that was using it. I don’t have a copy of None Dare call it conspiracy, but it would seem that it might be defined there.
Thx
35 posted on
10/17/2011 8:31:22 AM PDT by
Triple
(Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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