Red Dawn’s Wolverines Graffiti Showing Up in Ukraine On Russian Tanks
Graffiti with the word «Wolverines» from the 1984 movie Red Dawn is showing up on destroyed Russian tanks in Ukraine. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, which has kicked off a war between the two nations, with most countries around the world rallying behind Ukraine. Ukraine continues to fight off the invading Russian forces and has thus far been able to repel them in many areas, more so than was originally thought possible, given the size of both countries.
Directed by John Milius, Red Dawn was the product of Cold War hysteria in the 1980s, which imagined what it would be like if the then Soviet Union invaded the United States. The film starred Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey, Powers Boothe, and Harry Dean Stanton as Americans in Colorado who flee to the mountains to hide from the Russians, eventually becoming an insurgent army, calling themselves «Wolverines» which is based on their high school mascot. In the film, the group begins to spray paint the name across captured and destroyed Soviet tanks and vehicles in order to show it was them who took them out while spreading the word of their deeds.
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Now, it appears that the «Wolverines» word is spreading to Ukraine, as numerous destroyed tanks and APC's are being spray-painted with the term after their destruction. It's unclear if it's Ukrainian military forces that are putting the graffiti on the vehicles or if it's locals, but the word is spreading fast throughout the region and appearing all over Russian vehicles. No word on how the Red Dawn phrase caught hold in Ukraine, but the similarities between the film and real-life are very close, even if the invasion from
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