Hello again, Wren

It has, obviously, been far too long since I have updated. Life is good and I'm being productive and active, according to some accounts, and this is hardly the substantive post that I should break a month.5 silence with, but I thought it was a great discovery.

From wikipedia:

Like all the other republics of the Soviet Union, Armenia had its own flag and coat of arms. The latter became a source of dispute between the Soviet Union and Turkey in the 1950s when Turkey complained as to why it contained the image of Mount Ararat, which held a deeply symbolic importance to Armenians but is located on Turkish territory. Turkey felt that by having the image on the flag, the Soviet Union was making a territorial claim against it; Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, responded by saying: "Why do you have a moon depicted on your flag? After all, the moon doesn't belong to Turkey, not even half the moon ... Do you want to take over the whole universe?" The government of Turkey dropped the issue after this.

Khrushchev was such a baller.

Interestingly, I can't find a picture of any Armenian flag that shows Mount Ararat. None of the flags used by the republic (1, 2, 3, 4) have the illustration. The Coat of Arms does, though.