History of The Peace Symbol

PEACE SYMBOL or a BROKEN UPSIDE-DOWN CROSS: 

March 20^th, 2013 the symbol turned 55 years old.

Like many simple symbols, it meant different things at different times. Some call it Nero's cross, a cross with arms broken downward surrounded by a circle proclaiming Nero's vision of peace without Christians.  Revived in the sixties by the communists who protested the west's nuclear weapons capability, the  western culture, and all Christian values, it has became a worldwide symbol of a new age of global peace and earth-centered unity. But there are many who would agree that along with Nero it has been used it to mock Christ and His followers.  

The tail is told that Gerald Holtom used the semaphore letters n&d as the inspiration for his design of the “Peace Symbol” standing for nuclear disarmament, 

However, the BBC has quoted Holtom saying, "I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad."  Holtom also wrote to Hugh Brock, editor of Peace News, explaining the genesis of his idea in greater depth: "I was in despair. Deep despair. I drew myself: the representative of an individual in despair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of Goya's peasant before the firing squad. I formalised the drawing into a line and put a circle round it."  See:

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), a member of the British Fabian Socialist Society, a secret society advocating a New World Order, an historian, mathematician, and a member of the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, supported Holtom's claim and aggressively promoted the arms down symbol. The arms down peace sign made its first public appearance in the United Kingdom during the 1958 Easter weekend Direct Action Committee anti-nuclear march from London to Aldermaston. Russell was the march organizer responsible for placing the arms down peace symbol on buttons and banners.

In “The Impact of Science on Society” Russell wrote in his book that a "Black Death" or bacteriological warfare would be helpful every generation to cull the population.  His primary interest in the symbol was the image of defeat, despair, and disrespecting Jesus’ cross. There are Secret societies that are still advancing the Great Plan and enjoy seeing people, especially young children, wearing the peace symbol with the arms down because in their Luciferian religion they believe deception produces a dark energy helping to pave the way for the Antichrist.  In his 1927 essay “Why I Am Not Christian”, the symbol represented not only a pro-communism meaning but peace without God.  He said, “There is no hope in anything but the Soviet way.”

 This is the story that is told about its creation, while it appears reasonable that the modern day peace symbol comes from Gerald Holtom, it fails to take into account the fact that the symbol has been around a very long time being used for evil now and for thousands of years.  While the Soviet strategy for infiltrating the peace movement's many ways it primarily boiled down to money or resources supplied indirectly through unwitting zealots to push the goals of defeating the US In Vietnam.  They offer somewhat benign assistance in the form of printed literature, printing press time, signs, flags, banners and other paraphernalia for demonstrations and propaganda, Soviet operatives penetrated organizations whose members were in many cases the wayward sons and daughters of the American's elite, and pushed the use of the Peace Symbol as a way to denigrate Christ in the minds of those who used it, as they directed the movement in the ways they wished.  Insidus, yes.  But it worked we lost the Vietnam War on the streets of America, not in the jungles of Vietnam.  See:

Above is a picture of the patch worn by the men of Hitler's 3rd Panzer Division from 1941 to 1945. Considering all the Soviet, Polish, and Hungarian citizens, having suffered from the Nazi massacres, one has to wonder at the use of this symbol as a way to communicate peace.  

The Saracens as early as 711 A.D.9  put the image placed on their shields symbolized the breaking of the Christian cross. For other the broken cross was equated to a satanic symbol known as the raven's craw or witch's foot. And while Holtom may not have known the historical meaning of his peace symbol, Bertrand Russell,a historian and member of the Fabian, surly knew the sign, in a 1970 article in the American Opinion magazine it claimed Russell knew the historical occult meaning and intentionally selected an "anti-Christian design long associated with Satanism. See

It is said that, though it is not in the scriptures, to symbolize humility and unworthiness in comparison to Christ, Peter requested that he be crucified with his head toward the ground. As a result of Peter's death the upside down cross was used by early Christians as a positive symbol for peace.  However, the upside down cross changes its meaning when the person on the upside down cross is Jesus and not Peter. Anti-religious and satanic groups use the so called "Nero Cross" or inverted "Latin Cross" to symbolize everything opposite of Christianity.

On a closing note I would like to point out that The founder of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey. LaVey used the symbol as the backdrop for his altar.  So “be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.” (Matthew 10:16)