Luca Fazio wrote:
> Well the Eagle with two heads is actually the albanian flag... maybe albanian
> government will consider to sue GW for using its national flag without
> copyright agreement !!!
The Two-Headed Eagle is the traditional symbol of the Hapsburgs, who
ruled a large part of Europe in "The Holy Roman Empire" for many
centuries. This is where Albania got her flag from.
> In the middle of a Wh40k heavy fighting one of them, pointing to my Leman Russ
> squadron with several imperial eagles on tanks, said:
> "Hey which army are you playing ?? space albanian ???"
> We soon started to laugh !
I thought that remark was rather witty....
> Btw it is not a racist assault versus the poor albanian people.
Yes, Italy has -or had - a "Boat People" problem of many Albanians
flocking to Italy as refugees. Hopefully the problem is less now than it
was.
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