According to the Anti-Defamation League, he is popular with neo-Nazis as one of “several European symbols appropriated by the Nazis in their attempt to invent the idealized Aryan heritage”. A photograph of a Ukrainian soldier who was evacuating civilians near the capital Kiev went viral because of a symbol associated with Nazism present on his uniform. The image recorded by Ukrainian photojournalist Anastasia Vlasova began to circulate on social media after being released in a Twitter post by the American image bank Getty Images. In announcing the invasion of Ukrainian territory, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the military operation...
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