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>>16368633 CALL NOTABLES LOUD
>>16368577 Warroom Memorial day special -o7
>>16368427, >>16368471 PF
>>16368433 Biden Delivers Remarks in Observance of Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery
>>16368460 Anon Maga Notable Bun
>>16367924 LB Are there caves in NAPA valley CA, an area best know for pedovore luxury vineyards?
>>16368007 LB Russians investigate Red Cross organ and child trafficking in Ukraine
>>16367684 LB Trump Global Notables Bun
>>16368517 Jerry Dunleavy does a 14 post thread on the military killed at the airport gate in Afghanistan Aug. 26, 2021.
>>16368586, >>16368621 Is dayshift always like this now?
>>16368658 Anon Opines it might be the jews
>>16368705 Uvalde School Board of Trustees
>>16368712 Biden's Jewish Advisors, Cabinet Members and Staff
>>16368721 Trump Global Notables Bun
>>16368745, >>16368855 SOMEONE ACTUALLY BELIEVES A BOT WAS 'TRIGGERED' BECAUSE OF SOMEONE'S POST
>>16368862 Paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan dead at 84
>>16368871, >>16368920 Dank Caps and Memes
>>16368924 That Time a Federal Prosecutor’s Body Washes Ashore On Florida Beach – Police Investigate as Crime
>>16368951, >>16368911 RT visits the site Azov forces used to shelter from raids with loaded arms, corpses and debris scattered all around #NAZIS
>>16369015 Germany to amend constitution
>>16369030 Around 520 military service members filed a suit on Monday against the government
>>16369039 TLC star Josh Duggar sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for child pornography
>>16369040 Two people have plead guilty to ballot harvesting in Arizona.
>>16369044 Court Testimony Shows How Spygate Conspirators Deceived The FBI
>>16369045 Fox News co-anchor asks about heart problems after COVID booster
>>16369049 The reason why schools are gun free zones is because of Joe Biden
>>16369056 FBI Agent Who Investigated the Alpha Bank Hoax Under Investigation for Crossfire Hurricane FISA Applications
>>16369060 Perkins-Coie ran the DNC.
>>16369068 Ukraine's unity is crumbling amid serious military losses in the Donbass
>>16369069 Uvalde Police Scanner Archive Missing 18 Minutes Of Data?
>>16369111 Zuckerborg was dumping cash into election officials around the country. YT
>>16369114 Pupils at four primary schools in Wales are to be fed insects
>>16369092 Patel Patriot Interviews Gregg Phillips (47:25)
>>16369144 The CIA has 7 supercomputers, and they are all named after the 7 dwarfs from Snow White
>>16369149 #20707
State Department Briefing
State Department Spokesman Ned Price briefs reporters 2PM
https://www.c-span.org/video/?521479-1/state-department-briefing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbAYhcbF8Y
>How the bear became the symbol of Russia CONT
In fact, what was sold and marketed as bear's grease was sometimes just English pig fat, but English gentlemen were far too preoccupied with curing their embarrassing baldness, and so the power of advertising was left to do its thing.
A case of geography
Another reason Russia was associated with bears in the eyes of Europeans was a famous bear academy that was established in the 17th century in the town of Smorgon. Calling it an academy was probably a bit ambitious for what was really just a private school that trained bears for circuses throughout Europe. And it did not matter that at the time Smorgon was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The average European was not particularly bothered with geographical accuracy. They knew that it was somewhere in the east, and they knew that somewhere in the east was Russia.
It is therefore not surprising that when England began to produce political cartoons and engravings in the 19th century, Russia was always depicted in them as a bear. This image was picked up by others, and during the Cold War the bear became a metaphor for the cruel, bloodthirsty policies of the USSR.
Olympic symbol
Do Russians like the bear as a symbol? It's hard to say. It was always somewhere in the background, as it were. But the Russian bear’s popularity in Europe was such that the Soviet Union decided the bear's negative image could at least be shown in a more positive light, simply by reminding the West that the bear is a very brave, strong and tenacious animal. Not to mention a great mascot for the Olympics!
And so it was that many viewers were moved to tears when the bear mascot soared up into the sky on dozens of balloons at the closing ceremony of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Later, after the breakup of the USSR, the bear was one of the contenders to appear on the Russian national emblem, but it lost to the Russian Imperial double-headed eagle. However, the bear had a comeback in the early 2000s, when it was picked as the symbol of the ruling United Russia party