Carlo Calenda tattooed the symbol of Ukraine on his wrist and showed it off on his social media profiles.
"And now we have it tattooed on our bodies for life. Slavaukraina," wrote the leader of Azione on X.
A decision that sparked a clash with the Russian embassy: "By getting this tattoo, Carlo Calenda voluntarily joins the community of followers of Petliura, Bandera, Shuhevich, and other Ukrainian Nazis and collaborators, whose hands are stained with the blood of Jews, Roma, Hungarians, Russians, and Ukrainians," the Russian embassy in Rome wrote on social media. "Does Carlo Calenda, like some of his other unfortunate colleagues, understand the essence of the symbol he has imprinted on his body? In Russia, there's a saying about it: everyone is 'fruit of the same field,'" the embassy continues, attaching a photo of Simon Petliura (commander of the Ukrainian Republic's army in the early 1900s and one of Ukraine's symbols), described as an "anti-Semitic and nationalist" leader, wearing the symbol on his uniform.
The Action leader's immediate counter-reply: "You will be defeated. Just as the USSR was defeated. Freedom always triumphs over tyranny in the end. And if you're afraid of a tattoo, it means you already know it."
Calenda loves tattoos: years ago, during his election campaign for mayor of Rome, he decided to get a tattoo of the word "SPQR." Later, he got an "A," a reference to his party's name. The senator also has a picture of a shark, his favorite animal.
(Unioneonline)
