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#Zelenskyy’s shirt featured #Ukraine #military emblem, not hate symbol”

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“AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. #Zelenskyy wore a #military T-shirt that featured the official #emblem for the #Ukraine #Armed #Forces. In its center, the emblem includes Ukraine’s official coat of arms.
The image on his shirt did not match the #Iron #Cross or any hateful symbol, according to historians and #extremism experts.”
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Despite #historicalrevisionism (that's a polite way of saying lies), #public #symbolic #lynching holds a distinct and honored role in establishing the conditions necessary to the independence of these former British colonies.
Colonists enraged by repeated abuses conducting #lynches in #effigy of #Crown officials, often accompanied by "funerals for Liberty" in which, having been carried in a coffin to a prominent town location, seemingly deceased, Lady Liberty would rouse from her nightshade slumber.
While #lynching as a tool of #racist #murder and #oppression should be studied and understood by all that love liberty, the #noose deployed by those that invented the USA was a #libertysign, not a #murderweapon.
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Here is a thread on India's state & UT emblems. Corrections welcome!

1) Satyameva Jayate is from Mundaka Upanishad of Atharva Veda. Saranath Lions & SJ are common in emblems.

Exceptions - Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Sikkim, Nagaland, UP, Maharashtra, Lakshadweep & Chandigarh.
2) Andhra Pradesh has a Dharma Chakra or Wheel of Law.
Jharkhand and Lakshadweep too have similar wheels.

Lakshadweep islands have the additional butterfly fish.
3) Kerala has Vishnu's shankha. Elephants on side.

Sikkim has a Shankha.

Goa has Upanishad based emblem - Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu from Brihadaranyaka, Yajur Veda.

Maharashtra has a diya & Sanskrit Subhashita origin Raja mudra of Shivaji Maharaj - Pratipacchandra lekheva..
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