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IainB:
Priceless.
EDIT 2013-03-07: The picture has been removed. Original source for this and the image is a Telegrapgh.co.uk post:
SpoilerYou thought the whole 'EUSSR' thing was over the top? Have a look at this poster
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I used to find the EUSSR trope tedious, but now…

Take a close look at this promotional poster. Notice anything? Alongside the symbols of Christianity, Judaism, Jainism and so on is one of the wickedest emblems humanity has conceived: the hammer and sickle.

For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags. For hundreds of millions of Europeans, it was a symbol of foreign occupation. Hungary, Lithuania and Moldova have banned its use, and various  former communist countries want it to be treated in the same way as Nazi insignia.

Yet here it sits on a poster in the European Commission, advertising the moral deafness of its author (I hope that's what it is, rather than lingering nostalgia). The Bolshevist sigil celebrates the ideology which, in strict numerical terms, must be reckoned the most murderous ever devised by our species. That it can be passed unremarked day after day in the corridors of Brussels is nauseating.


A piece of biting sarcasm and fair comment from reason.tv's Hit & Run Blog, about a Promotional Poster in the European Commission



Matthew Feeney|Oct. 19, 2012 2:15 pm
Member of the European Parliament and Youtube phenomenon Daniel Hannan posted a photo of a poster hanging in the European Commission on his blog today. The poster is from Europe4All and features the E.U. logo in the top right corner.
At first glance it looks like a happy-feely all inclusive tolerance plug, but on closer inspection a more sinister symbol can be seen amongst the crosses, star of Davids, ying-yangs, trisulas, and Torii gates, the hammer and sickle. Hannan remarks on the symbol of an atheist regime that killed tens of millions of people being among religious symbols in a poster promoting tolerance:
For three generations, the badge of the Soviet revolution meant poverty, slavery, torture and death. It adorned the caps of the chekas who came in the night. It opened and closed the propaganda films which hid the famines. It advertised the people's courts where victims of purges and show-trials were condemned. It fluttered over the re-education camps and the gulags.

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Nauseating stuff. Whoever is responsible for the poster maybe should have considered the misery inflicted by the Soviet Union on countries that are now members of the E.U. While to ignorant left-wing westerners gripped by middle-class guilt the hammer and sickle might be some sort of pathetic symbolic refuge, to the people of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland it might have a different connotation.

All I want to know is who forgot the swastikas.

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tomos:
Priceless.
A piece of biting sarcasm and fair comment from reason.tv's Hit & Run Blog, about a Promotional Poster in the European Commission
 (see attachment in previous post)-IainB (October 20, 2012, 07:06 AM)
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also odd because it doesnt exist anymore....


Anyone know
- what's the symbol that looks like a table for?
- and the one that looks like a ship's steering wheel? (maybe simply seafarers)
- and the trident???  (seafarers covered already, some interesting possibilities in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trident#Symbolism.2Fmythology)

fenixproductions:
@tomos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_symbolism

tomos:
thanks fenix, came across a couple of strange ones there (how about a religion that believes the earth was created by a species of extraterrestrials - their symbol is a swastika within a star of David ...)

- the table is actually a gate and is Shinto (Japanese)
- I never knew this one: the ship's steering wheel is for buddhism (the 'Wheel of Dharma'). I had thought the hand was Buddhist but that is Jainism.

- it's still not clear what the trident is (possibly paganism?)

Edvard:
Hinduism.
http://www.religionfacts.com/hinduism/symbols/trisula.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trishula
The trihsula (also spelled trishul or trisula, Sanskrit for "three spear") is a trident spear that is the emblem of the god Shiva. The weapon symbolizes empire and the irresistible force of transcendental reality.

The three prongs of the trishula represent Shiva's three aspects of:

* creator,
* preserver
* destroyer
as well as the three shaktis (powers):

* will
* action
* wisdom
The fearsome goddess Durga also brandishes a trishula in one of her seven hands.
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Seems to be a (relatively) recent addition, though:
http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?220045

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