Courtesy of the Riding Sun blog, I present the official logo of Russia's Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie (GRU), or Main Intelligence Directorate. Despite the treachery of oily Vladimir Putin in recent years, the Russian President has good taste in logos. I'm sure the legal department of DC Comics/Warner Bros. disagrees...but what do they do? Sue Russia?
On second thought, if these creepy radiation-poisoning spooks wanted to steal a DC Comics logo, why did it have to be Batman's? Why not something more appropriate....like this one?
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kewl!
where can I sign up???
;-P
now for a rousing chorus of "You're so lame!" I can't believe they inlaid this in the floor! They're gonna be teased by all the other secret Government agencies... heh
Posted by: Hillbilly geek | December 17, 2006 at 03:30 PM
The inlaid floor logo is the thing that really kills me. I think they've achieved total "James Bondian Evil Organization Status" by using a bat covering the world (nevermind the fact that it's Batman's bat). The Russians are many things, but "subtle" has rarely been one of them.
Posted by: Mark Engblom | December 17, 2006 at 09:48 PM
They should get a 6' mock-up of the Red Son -Batman.
Posted by: Skyhawk | December 18, 2006 at 09:24 AM
Haha, that's pretty interesting!
Posted by: Dan | December 21, 2006 at 03:08 AM
Holy copyright infringement, Batman!
Posted by: No one Special | September 02, 2008 at 04:21 PM