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Swedish Army Castrates Lion Emblem

by mpress | December 13, 2007 at 08:21 am

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File this under PC gone wild.

Protests from female soldiers have led to the Swedish military removing the penis of a heraldic lion depicted on the Nordic Battlegroup’s coat of arms.

“We were given the task of making sure the willy disappeared,” Christian Braunstein from the army’s ‘tradition commission’ told Göteborgs-Posten.

“We were forced to cut the lion’s willy off with the aid of a computer,” he added.

The Nordic Battlegroup is one of eighteen such military groups in the European Union. Some 2,000 of its 2,400 soldiers come from Sweden, with the rest coming from Finland, Norway, Ireland and Estonia.

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