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Kai Strittmatter
Blue and yellow, in Russia these are the colors of the enemy. “We are against Nazism,” read the posters that appeared at bus stops in Moscow this week. “You are not.” The word “Sie” is highlighted on the posters with the blue and yellow of the national colors of those who were reviled. No, it’s not the flag of Ukraine, it’s the flag of Sweden showing through here. And those reviled as Nazis and Nazi sympathizers on the poster are Swedish icons. At the top: children’s book author Astrid Lindgren, followed by director Ingmar Bergman and Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad.