I love that there's another Ukrainian military unit with a slightly different heraldic lion patch with three crowns that isn't from a 1940s Nazi battalion (and dates back to something like pre-WWI) and that I had to second-guess for a brief moment there before clicking the NATOpedia link. Because where would we be without libs having ammunition with which to gaslight us.
(Edit: Does anyone else remember that post? It feels like a millennium ago, but I want to say it was back in May or June; started off as a Reddit thread with a photo of a team of Ukrainian army medics working on an injured troop in some kind of field hospital/infirmary, and one of the medics had a plainly visible patch whose insignia had a heraldic lion on it. A bunch of commenters pointed it out saying that it was Nazi imagery, and promptly had their comments deleted. One of our comrades from here got into it with the mod that was deleting the comments, made a post about it over here, and that thread devolved into a struggle session on whether or not it was Nazi shit, and I think the consensus landed on "it's not a Nazi insignia, but it looks damned close to one," which, incidentally is the one from this OP.)
I remember a couple of months ago when we had a whole fight about how specific and pedantic heraldry is and tracked down all the rampant lion crests from that region.
I love that there's another Ukrainian military unit with a slightly different heraldic lion patch with three crowns that isn't from a 1940s Nazi battalion (and dates back to something like pre-WWI) and that I had to second-guess for a brief moment there before clicking the NATOpedia link. Because where would we be without libs having ammunition with which to gaslight us.
(Edit: Does anyone else remember that post? It feels like a millennium ago, but I want to say it was back in May or June; started off as a Reddit thread with a photo of a team of Ukrainian army medics working on an injured troop in some kind of field hospital/infirmary, and one of the medics had a plainly visible patch whose insignia had a heraldic lion on it. A bunch of commenters pointed it out saying that it was Nazi imagery, and promptly had their comments deleted. One of our comrades from here got into it with the mod that was deleting the comments, made a post about it over here, and that thread devolved into a struggle session on whether or not it was Nazi shit, and I think the consensus landed on "it's not a Nazi insignia, but it looks damned close to one," which, incidentally is the one from this OP.)
I remember a couple of months ago when we had a whole fight about how specific and pedantic heraldry is and tracked down all the rampant lion crests from that region.
Yes!!! I just edited my comment to include this. lol