V for Victory, in the language of 28 nations (8-2-42)

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Reading Eagle (August 2, 1942)

In the language of 28 nations, it’s–

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The millions of peoples of the 28 nations fighting against the Axis say it in thousands of languages and dialects, but it all adds up to the same thing – V for Victory.

Put them all together and they’d make the Tower of Babel sound like an elocution-school commencement-day program.

In case you should want to greet some of your friends in the war slogan in their own tongue, here are phonetic translations of some of the more difficult ones:
Russian: Just say П Для Победы (P Dlya Pobyedy) and they’ll know what you mean.
Yugoslavian: В за победу (V za pobedu)
Norwegian: Vi Vil Vinne
Danish: V for sejr
Chinese: 勝是勝利 (Shèng shì shènglì)
Polish: V Znak Zwycięstwa
Czech: V pro vítězství

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Awesome, V for victory :v: (and up yours in Britain :uk: if you your hand around, source: the Young ones)

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I loved how the V became such a powerful symbol and how it differs from the I am an automaton Nazi Salute.

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And later morphed into the peace symbol.

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There is the classic peace symbol during the 60’s, at least for me.

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Oh I never saw the connection between the peace symbol and the V, thanks.

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