Fingered Salute facts
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The Hunger Games" three fingered salute has become a real symbol of resistance in Thailand against the recent military coup.
Students in Thailand were arrested for using the three-finger salute from "The Hunger Games" in public against the government
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After banning the 3-finger Hunger Games salute as a symbol by activists opposing the coup that installed the military junta in Thailand in May, anti-coup activists decided to make sandwiches a symbol of protest. The military then arrested students for "possessing sandwiches with ill intent"
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Some Polish soldiers were arrested by their allied officers during WWII, due to the perceived disrespect of their two-finger salute.
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Pressing the buttons Control-Alt-Delete is referred to giving the "Three Fingered Salute"
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English football team, Aston Villa, refused to give a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 after being advised to by the Football Associaton. In their next game they gave a two-finger salute. The crowd went crazy; they didn't know what it meant. (Source: Kicking and Screaming, Rogan Taylor, 1998)
