Posted on 06/07/2021 7:09:45 AM PDT by Renfrew
A new kit for Ukraine's football team, showing a map including Russian-annexed Crimea, has provoked anger in Moscow.
Ukraine unveiled its shirt for Euro 2020, emblazoned with its borders including Crimea and the slogan "Glory to Ukraine!"
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no pic?
Idiots. Dream on.
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I want one. F Russia.
The thing in the middle looks like a giant phalanx (or middle finger). A message to Putin?
It is a symbol of Galician SS division. ‘Glory to Ukraine’ is a slogal of the division.
That is what makes the outrage, Crimea has nothing to do with this.
No, it’s the Tryzub from the Ukrainian Coat of Arms.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ukraine
Ukraine’s ties to Crimea go deep into the mists of history—to the 1950s. It was Russia’s for a couple of hundred years until Khrushchev gifted it to the Ukraine SSR. I don’t thinks they’re going to get it back.
Not mutually exclusive.UPA thugs were killing the Jews for the Germans under this banner.
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