Botond173
8hr ago
Botond173
8hr ago
Indeed, but unlike these eagles, those predate the Italian fascist movement.
This page has a picture of Japanese-American troops in the highly-decorated 442nd wearing these coats.
It's kind of curious in this context that the US national eagle adorning the entrance of the Epinal American Cemetery, as pictured on that site, is an almost perfect copy of the Nazi imperial eagle. (The eagle decorating the entrance of the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium, on the other hand, is pretty much a copy of the Nazi Party eagle. The difference is kindly explained on Wikipedia.)
Botond173
13hr ago
Also, Xi's half-sister was studying at a military academy (I wasn't aware that those were accepting women back then in China) and was driven to suicide during the Cultural Revolution, at least according to Wikipedia.
Botond173
13hr ago
Those of them who survived to 1941 were mostly released and conscripted back to frontline service, as far as I know.
Botond173
14hr ago
I'd say he made a good attempt at humor and correctly summed up what the argument of lipstick feminists would be if it was a uniformed organization mainly consisting of women that'd be the one criticized for its looks.
Also, I'm somewhat of a misogynist myself, but I'd ask you to differentiate "women" from "lipstick feminists".
Botond173
14hr ago
Rounding up vagrants is I think a task that citizens' militias / vigilante groups are best suited for.
The variant (if one can call it that) with the downward-pointing wings was certainly also in official use. (See this huge gallery from the Third Reich in Ruins site.) One example are the famous bronze eagles at the Luitpold Arena in Nuremberg. I have no idea what the heraldic/symbolic significance of this is, if any; I guess there were also practical considerations at play (cost, size, structural balance).
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