Yes, there's a lot going on there magically speaking. One of the bitter ironies of the last century is that the victors in the Second World War, by defining Hitler's regime as their favorite label for evil incarnate, guaranteed that Nazism would have a long and powerful afterlife -- all that emotional energy being poured into the swastika and the other Nazi symbols, by people hating them and using them as emblems of what they hate, ended up charging them with even more energy than they had before and during the war. (Compare those emblems to those of Italian Fascism. What kind of emotional reaction does this generate in you?)
So you've got a set of very powerful symbols charged with the energy of hatred, which is potent stuff. The Russians, in response, are using Soviet symbols -- another piece of evidence that somebody in the Kremlin understands magic, since it wasn't the Nazis who won the war, after all. That wasn't accidental; the Wotan-energy Hitler invoked and embodied inevitably leads straight to Götterdammerung, and so the Russians are using symbolism against symbolism to help the Ukrainian forces along the familiar route.
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Date: 2023-03-06 07:37 pm (UTC)So you've got a set of very powerful symbols charged with the energy of hatred, which is potent stuff. The Russians, in response, are using Soviet symbols -- another piece of evidence that somebody in the Kremlin understands magic, since it wasn't the Nazis who won the war, after all. That wasn't accidental; the Wotan-energy Hitler invoked and embodied inevitably leads straight to Götterdammerung, and so the Russians are using symbolism against symbolism to help the Ukrainian forces along the familiar route.