Churchill’s “V-Sign” and the Peace Symbol
I was wanting to find out about the two-finger gesture in the picture. It appears to be either the earliest peace symbol, and/or rabbit ears? The “crow foot” peace symbol predates Churchill’s V-sign by four or five centuries. Its current form was popularized by Picasso in the World Peace Conferences of the 1950s, when it was alleged to represent the Christian cross upside down and broken, the symbol of a Communist peace. Wikipedia has an interesting discussion.
I’m not sure where Churchill picked up his two-finger V-sign (palm facing out), but he certainly popularized it during World War II. …