Literally the first reference I saw to this was in the FSB leaker's comment that it is about to become the new swastika, i.e., a symbol associated with barbarit

Literally the first reference I saw to this was in the FSB leaker's comment that it is about to become the new swastika, i.e., a symbol associated with barbarity and fascist military aggression married to millenarian dead-ender ideology. That Putin is going all-in on using the tooling of cult mobilization in this fashion is one more indication that this doesn't stop until we stop him.