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* The Soviet War Factory from ''[[Command & Conquer|Red Alert 2]]'' (shown above), with an "onion dome"—a traditional element of Russian Orthodox church architecture—lodged on its roof. Several other Soviet structures in this game were given similar "attachments". On the other hand, Red Alert is built entirely on [[Camp]] and [[Rule of Cool]]/[[Rule of Funny]], so this can be excused by the [[MST3K Mantra]].

** MayIt may be [[Justified Trope|justified]] anyway as the Bolsheviks (especially at the beginning) found new uses for building of "opium of the people". The churches were converted into things such as stables, and warehouses... when they weren't just blown up. It is noted, however, that [[Joseph Stalin]] did open relations with the Russian Orthodox Church during [[World War II]] as a pragmatic means of rousing patriotic etcsupport.

* The Kremlin wonder in ''[[RiseCivilization of NationsIV]]'' ... is also actually St. Basil's Cathedral.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] appropriating swastikas. The swastika, previous to encounters with India and Buddhism, was already a very popular symbol in the West It was, commonly associated with, among other things [[Norse Mythology|Thor]], the god of thunder, among other things. In fact, the swastika is so ubiquitous in world cultures that some, including Carl Sagan, theorized that it was, in fact, based off the image of a comet seen straight on., while Othersothers have hypothesized that it represents the sun. The Nazis made the mistake of assuming it to be an Aryan symbol above all else, and that it proved a connection between the mythic white Aryans (as opposed to "real" Aryans, AKA Proto-Indo-Europeans, almost certainly weren't blonde-haired, blue eyed Nordics, andwho resembled North Indians or Iranians<ref>the words "Aryan" and "Iran" are cognates, incidentally</ref>) and the Scandinavian cultures they admired.

* FIFA though it would be a great idea to release a football bearing the flags of the countries that had classified for the 2002 [[The World Cup|the 2002 World Cup]]. And it would have, - if one of those countries wasn't Saudi Arabia, which has the 'Shahada' or declaration of islamicIslamic creed sewn into it, taken straight from the Quran. Add to that that [[Values Dissonance|hitting something with your shoes or feet is a supreme insult in Arab culture]],<ref>Which is why [[Muhammad Ali]] requested to have his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame placed on a wall due to his Muslim faith.</ref> and you can figure where this is going.

* Some coins made in Britain during the Dark Ages, like those of King [[wikipedia:Offa of Mercia|Offa of Mercia]], have Arab inscriptions reading "there is no God but Allah" or claiming to have been struck in Damascus a number of years after the Hegira. It is believed that the engravers responsible copied contemporary Abassid gold dinars and mistook the Arabic writing for mere decoration.