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Daniel Nest's avatar

They also planted sunflowers in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, both for the symbolic and practical value (turns out sunflowers help extract radioactive materials from the soil).

But, of course, the most epic sunflower-related video will forever be this clip from the early days of Russia's invasion where the lady offers Russian soldiers sunflower seeds to put in their pockets, so that sunflowers would grow out of them when they die: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L17Bi7zBJHI

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David Perlmutter's avatar

"Daschund" means "badger dog", so that was the purpose. They got typed as "wiener" dogs likely not only due to the shape but because of the massive hatred directed towards Germany in the two World Wars, when many terms rooted in the German language were changed temporarily or permanently.

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